"Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like lean, frenzied dogs. Extreme hunger has a way of creating these emotions in even the most mil-mannered people."

“Think of a single word. We'll use soul as our example. How do you define soul? Is it the same definition I use? Can it ever be it? My soul is not your soul. Our souls, our definitions, are shaped by the singular and cumulative experiences in our lives, the emotional weight we attach to a concept forever locked in the space behind our own eyes.”

“I used to hide my real emotions in gobbledegook, like in In His Own Write. When I wrote teenage poems, I wrote in gobbledegook because I was always hiding my real emotions from Mimi.”

“I know I'm not a bully and everybody has their opinions and that's fine with me.”

“Activism that challenges the status quo, that attacks deeply rooted problems, is not for the faint of heart.”

“hope is not a plan of action.”

Source : Susan Jacoby (2011). “Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age”, p.126, Vintage

“Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.”

“During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.”

“Historically, the responsibility for voting on the debt limit has gone to the party in the majority.”