"I killed you. And you. And you."

“Everybody I knew who was really ambitious and kind of annoying wanted to move to New York. I like it here but that has nothing to do with the fantasy image that goes along with it. You have so many people complaining, "It's not how it used to be." If you look for specific things and you don't find them anymore, that's disappointing. But that's just your disappointment, it has nothing to do with the city. I think it's a nice place-harsh at times, and so on, but beautiful nonetheless.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in.”

“One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.”

“A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.”

“I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.”

Source : "You have to laugh" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2004.

“When you're in doubt about the future and you're in doubt about how solid this thing is that you're laying your life and your soul on the line for, you will probably retract into yourself a little bit and think, No, there's only so much I can give to something that everyone doesn't believe in. There's been chipping away, people have been chipping away at it, so it's just you in the spotlight in front of all these people.”

Source : Source: www.excellentonline.com

“We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.”

Source : Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.13, U of Nebraska Press

“It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?”