"As for another profession ... I suppose I'd manage a global-macro hedge fund. I love that kind of stuff. Weird, I know, but I find it fascinating."

“Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.”

Source : Robert D. Hare (2011). “Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us”, p.174, Guilford Press

“charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.”

“I enjoy doing romantic stories. I've done a lot of them.”

“Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, we shall, in an emotional sense, acquire an additional dimension...”

“Is the New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? Of course it is.”

Source : "THE PUBLIC EDITOR; Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?". www.nytimes.com. July 25, 2004.

“To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.”

“The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

“I actually pointed my wand and it blew up! The power! The power was just like Angry Birds, but big [as] life.”