"America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland."

“Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.”

Source : "Fictional character: Robert the Bruce". "Braveheart", 1995.

“Among the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?”

“Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.”

“I went to Samuel Ayer High School, which is now Milpitas High School.”

Source : "Grant Show stars in 'Accidentally on Purpose'". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. October 24, 2009.

“I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate each other. Like the late Erich von Holst, I believe that the tremendous and otherwise not quite explicable public interest in space flight arises from the subconscious realization that it helps to preserve peace. May it continue to do so!”

“They were now both ready, not to begin from scratch, but to continue with a love that had survived for thirteen years in hibernation. They were no longer travellers without baggage. They were no longer twenty. They'd both been around the block a bit and had suffered without the other. They'd both lost their way without the other.  Each had tried to find love with other people. But all that was now finished.”

“Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.”