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“Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.”
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“Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.”
Source : "Interview: Bam Margera on Jackass 3D and Beyond". Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. October 17, 2010. 
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“The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.”
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“Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.”
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“Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.”
Source : "DNA project reveals Tom Conti's Napoleonic blood and rich roots of Scotland's genetic legacy" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2012.
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“If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.”
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“Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy”
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“Interviewer: Have you ever considered writing nonfiction? Mary Doria Russell: Oh, honey, I did! Let's see...There was "A Reconsideration of the Evidence for Cannibalism at the Krapina Neandertal Site." That was a big hit. And who could ever forget "Cutmarks on the Engis II Calvarium"? Then there was "Browridge Development as a Function of Bending Stress in the Supraorbital Region." I got tons of reprint requests for that one. Trust me fiction is better.”
