“Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.”
Source : FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Aug 08, 2011 
“No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.”
“Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.”
“You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?”
“Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.”
Source : Shalom Auslander (2012). “Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel”, p.168, Penguin
“The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.”
Adam Smith
Philosopher
Ed Harris
Actor
Jennifer Connelly
Film actress
John von Neumann
Mathematician
Paul Bettany
Actor
Paul Nash
Artist
Ron Howard
Film director
Russell Crowe
Actor
Sylvia Nasar
Journalist
