"Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease."

“What was it that drew you back? My marvellous personality, I suppose? Or my sparkling conversation?”

Source : Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion

“I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.”

“You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.”

Source : "'Happy Endings' Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton interview". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 7, 2011.

“Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.”

Source : George Sarton (1952). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.10, Courier Corporation

“Public toilets have a duty to be accessible, poetry does not.”

“I am one of the lucky few who is successful in their career, and I'm really enjoying myself.”

“I can't say I'm thankful about being German because I sometimes experience it as a huge burden. But it is an integral part of me and I wouldn't want to escape it. I have accepted it.”

Source : "Bernhard Schlink: being German is a huge burden". Interview with Kate Connolly, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

“Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.”