"Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies."

“In America you make your plans and then they happen.”

Source : Nell Freudenberger (2012). “The Newlyweds”, p.44, Vintage

“Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity”

“I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'”

“History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.”

“This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.”

“When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts.”

“If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.”

Source : "Wyclef Jean: The pop star who would be president" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

“grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.55, Penguin