"What was broken will never be the same again."

“I love life too much to be bitter.”

Source : "Sarkozy Tells His Aides He Is Quitting Active Politics" by Sanya Khetani, www.businessinsider.com. May 07, 2012.

“The most important person to thank is...my mother. She gave me four golden rules to live by: be a proud black man, take care of your family, make education a priority, and try to do the right thing.”

“I would never tell myself, you have to write 20 pages today or something. But I do try to show up. Read what I wrote, fix things.”

Source : "BYT Interviews: Celeste Ng". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 22, 2016.

“The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.”

Source : "'Masada Songbook': Zorn Redefines Jewish Music". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. November 13, 2005.

“The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.”

Source : William Godwin, Luke White (bookseller.) (1793). “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness”, p.375

“Parker: When can you start? Rainie: I can start tomorrow if you'd like. My schedule is pretty much open. All I have to keep me at home is Thomas. Parker: Ah. It figures that there'd be a man in the picture. You're too lovely to be unattached. Rainie: Thomas is a cat.”

“As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.”

“I think all the beer I drank in college created an iron bladder.”