"I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century."

“Without mathematics there is no art.”

“Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.”

“I'm not looking for sympathy at all.”

“Evil grows when good people do and say nothing.”

Source : Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”

“The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.”

“It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.”

“The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.”

“At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.