"Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden."

“Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.”

“I didn't promise I wouldn't break your tender heart, Mica. Protect it from me. Don't let me touch that part of you. Don't let me destroy both of us that way.”

Source : Lora Leigh (2011). “Navarro's Promise”, p.59, Penguin

“With gas cookers and chip pans in every kitchen, the chip-pan fire was by far the most popular method these Proddies had for burning their houses down. The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet. Mind you, why they'd be cooking chips at this hour was anyone's guess.”

Source : Adrian McKinty (2012). “The Cold Cold Ground”, p.106, Profile Books

“Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)”

“There's no shame in failing. The only shame is not giving things your best shot.”

“Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living.”

“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.”

Source : "Heauton Timorumenos". Play by Terence, Act IV, scene 6, line 1 (805),