"Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time."

“To win by strategy is no less the role of a general than to win by arms.”

Source : "The Civil War". Book by Julius Caesar translated by Jane P. Gardner, 47 BC.

“I like complicated characters.”

“Paul and I were both struggling actors. One night he would serve me in a restaurant, and the next night I would serve him. It was what out of work actors did.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Tradition is a very powerful force.”

“The product supply chain, from source material to store, is an organizing map for delivering human rights.”

“Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.”

Source : Jonathan Rosen (2010). “Eve's Apple: A Novel”, p.72, Macmillan

“The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.”

“Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.”

Source : Lady Jane Grey, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1825). “The Literary Remains of Lady Jane Grey: with a Memoir of Her Life. By N. H. Nicolas. L.P.”, p.42