"The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation."

“From that date the abandonment of the older State proceeded with a rapidity never before known, and with it grew the domestic slave trade and the pro-slavery feeling.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

“I'm fascinated by the fact that we can't grasp anything about time.”

“Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used.”

Source : Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.147, Oxford University Press on Demand

“In Presence, there is no outcome. It is our involvement in the outcome that keeps us imprisoned in an imagined future. In Presence, there is only now.”

“I think the majority of the people in the band still play in other bands, because we're not that active. But for me, it's the only thing I want to do and it's the only thing I'm focused on. I've always played in a couple of different bands at once, but now I'm only interested in the Dead Child stuff.”

Source : "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

“Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman”

“What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover...we are not alone.”

“Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.146, Rowman & Littlefield