"All along, American policy has been, 'We don't establish a Kurdistan."

-- Raymond T. Odierno

“Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do.”
“It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.”
“Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.”

Source : Howard Cosell (1974). “Like it is”
“I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.”
“I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.”
“If you don't know your own value, somebody will tell you your value, and it'll be less than you're worth.”
“There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.”
“I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.”

Source : Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.37, Macmillan

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