"The worst losses come at night."

“What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the concern of its impact on job creation. Well, if you carve out employers, you take away that argument.”

Source : "Sen. Susan Collins: Tax The Rich To Fund Payroll Tax Cut For Workers" By Michael McAuliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2011.

“Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable. Their common view that life is expendable explains the left's embrace abortion-on-demand and why the Islamists don't hesitate to deploy their own children for homicide bombings.”

“Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.”

Source : Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.164, Penguin

“Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.”

“I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.”

Source : "David James Elliott Plunges into Sci Fi's Knights of Bloodsteel". Interview with Erin Fox, www.tvguide.com. April 17, 2009.

“Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain.”

“I read a lot. I spend of lot time thinking. It actually looks like I'm doing nothing, but... hanging out with clever and interesting people is a must if you're writing comedy, like hanging out with a good bass player when you're a drummer.”

Source : Source: www.roland.co.uk

“The Ploughmen is as good a book as I’ve read in years. Kim Zupan’s language is as rich as Cormac McCarthy’s, and like Cormac’s, it comes from ground-zero of the heart. I’m also reminded of James Lee Burke’s sure-footed prose and delight in metaphor. Luminous...nothing short of brilliant...a firstnovel that leaves me impatient for the next.”