"I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen."

“I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.”

“I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.”

Source : Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read”

“Life is a journey with almost limitless possibilities.”

“O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?”

“In our case, we are in the Cenozoic Era, which started at the end of the time of the dinosaurs. We are in the Quaternary Period, which is within the Cenozoic Era. And within the Quaternary, we are in the Holocene Epoch.”

Source : "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.

“Congress is best viewed from a distance—the farther the better—because up close, it is truly ugly,”

“Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio”

“To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.”

Source : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.16, Vintage