"Every time I hear the name Joe Louis my nose starts to bleed."

“I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.”

“Women and men will have to go through the same physical test before they get into these ground combat jobs, and the test will increase over time for again both Marine Corps and the Army just to make sure everyone is physically fit enough to go through these jobs, to get through this training.”

“There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.”

“I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.”

Source : "Jerry Springer Talks Politics, His Show, And Why He Thinks We’re No Better Than His Guests". Interview with Mallika Rao, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2011.

“Don't resurrect relationships with negative people off of good memories. You will only remind yourself why they became your past in the first place.”

“The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.”

“I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.”

Source : Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

“He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.”

Source : Patrick Süskind (2015). “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”, p.170, Penguin UK