"You think I'm stupid. Stay out of my way. You think I'm stupid."

“The motto I have penned on my knuckles is that this is the best world we have--because it's the only world we have. It's the simplest math ever. However many terrible, rankling, peeve-inducing things may occur, there are always libraries. And rain-falling-on-sea. And the moon. And love. There is always something to look back on, with satisfaction, or forward to, with joy. There is always a moment where you boggle at the world--at yourself--at the whole, unlikely, precarious business of being alive--and then start laughing”

“You can’t shine if you don’t burn.”

“Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.”

Source : Stephen Vizinczey (1988). “Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

“..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.708, Allison & Busby Ltd

“An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.”

“As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.”

Source : Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, caselaw.findlaw.com. June 26, 2003.

“You act like a normal human being and you treat them [actors around] like a buddy because you're all working together. It's no different than being Governor. You put a team together and say, "Guys, we all want to shine here. We all want to show that this administration is going to do things that other administrations have thought was impossible. Let's kick some ***** together.”

“Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.”