"At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar."

“If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle.”

“I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.”

“The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound.”

“People always ask me, "Oh, do you ever want to start your own thing?" And I don't, actually. I think what I enjoy most is the sort of co-production of things, where you bring something and somebody else brings something and a kind of alchemy happens.”

“We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.”

Source : Fisher Ames (1835). “The influences of democracy on liberty, property and the happiness of society, considered, by an American [F. Ames], to which is prefixed, an introduction by H. Ewbank”, p.197

“I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, 'I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else.' I said, 'I am.'”

Source : "Demetri Martin: Wry comic originally planned to be a lawyer". Interview with Chad Jones, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2014.

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.”

“As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important.”

Source : "How to... fold things" by Guy Browning, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2000.