"I have been in love already, but I don’t think I have ever really loved somebody. Love is a very rare and beautiful thing, but it can also be bitter if the other one doesn’t love you back."

“I, for one, believe that revenue has to increase. I think every American would pay more if they thought spending was going to be cut and the budget brought to balance.”

“It was blazing sunshine and I went on in a turquoise neck muff, glamorous dress and muddy boots and just had the best gig, really emotional. I've had emails from people saying that they cried. They promised it wasn't the drugs.”

“I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.”

Source : "Chinese Modern Literature Laureate Expected to Become Centenarian". en.people.cn. August 13, 2001.

“I'm the only person in the entire world who has never see 'Dawson's Creek.”

“When you have nothing left but God, you become aware that God is enough.”

“It (Strayhorn's Compositions) made us all think a little differently about what we were doing”

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”

Source : Marcel Proust (2016). “Swann's Way”, p.88, Marcel Proust

“There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.”

Source : Bob Herbert (2007). “Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream”, p.275, Macmillan