"So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued."

“They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.”

“No, Zoey." Heat sounded pissed. It's not okay here. Not for you." Well, maybe that's 'cause I'm not dead. Yet.”

“Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Keep digging, Flynn. Six feet makes a grave.”

Source : Devon Monk (2010). “Magic on the Storm: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.199, Penguin

“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft me to my southern home, to my childhood frolics in the peach orchard. Other odors, instantaneous and fleeting, cause my heart to dilate joyously or contract with remembered grief. Even as I think of smells, my nose is full of scents that start awake sweet memories of summers gone and ripening fields far away.”

“There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.”

Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

“It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.”

“By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.”

Source : Denis Hayes (1977). “Energy: The Solar Prospect”, Worldwatch Inst