"The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history."

“A lot of it starts with playing instruments and working with other people. Some of the new generation is doing it on computers and they don't have a clue as to how to play anything. That's probably one of the problems. They don't know how to make the melody, go through the chord changes. They're not starting from that same school of thought.”

“If you love language, it will love you back.”

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

“The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.”

Source : "The Essential Right to Human Dignity". Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 03, 2005.

“I always liked creativity, whether it was to draw or sew - any creative assignment I was getting from school, or just on my own. I love people and behaviors, and I'm interested and fascinated by why we do what we do. And I wanted to be a therapist, to be honest. Maybe wirking in film combines the two worlds, in a not super-linear way, but it definitely feeds both my two passions.”

“I'm a refugee from the past, and like other refugees I go over the customs and habits of being I've left or been forced to leave behind me, and it all seems just as quaint, from here, and I am just as obsessive about it.”

“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.”

Source : Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

“If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.”