"If the novel is dying, I see no chance that dismembering it will revive it."

“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”

“In the beginning God created heaven and earth.”

“Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.”

“Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.”

Source : Barbara Catoir, Antoni Tàpies (1991). “Conversations with Antoni Tàpies: With an Introduction to the Artist's Work”

“As an athlete, there are advantages being with a team and getting regular physio.”

Source : "Olympic Games 2012: loneliness of the long-distance Paula Radcliffe". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2012.

“When I went to an Aspen seminar on "American Scriptures" - the bicentennial of the Declaration and they discussed the preamble and the Gettysburg Address and much more, but not Lincoln's Second Inauguration, I challenged that omission and they said find something on it and to my astonishment, at that time, there was no book or long article that really did it. So I wrote one that attempted to do it justice. Although obscurely published, that essay got a nice bounce. Somehow David Donald saw it, and in his notes to his biography singled it out.”

“I don't mind being called a hairy, humourless lesbian because that is what I aspire to be.”

Source : Bridget Christie (2015). “A Book for Her”, p.39, Random House

“In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.”

Source : Source: collider.com