"Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team."

“Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com

“Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a period, geologically recent, the unbroken ocean was here spread out. Hence, both in space and time, we seem to be brought somewhat near to that great fact — that mystery of mysteries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth.”

“Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.”

Source : Delia Ephron (1988). “Funny sauce”, Signet

“I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they disappear immediately and leave nothing but ashes.”

“As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good.”

“Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.”

“A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.”

“I would love to play Wonder Woman on the big screen.”

Source : "FNL's Adrianne Palicki on learning to be a badass for Red Dawn and Wonder Woman". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2012.