"During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails."

“Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.”

Source : Meir Kahane (1973). “Meir Kahane--writings (5732-33): Selected Writings by Meir Kahane from the Year 5732-33 (1971-73).”

“A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.”

“Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.”

“Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.”

“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure some kind of permanence, if only in the history of the 1960s and of science fiction.”

Source : "Kurt Vonnegut". Live discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. April 12, 2007.

“The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.”

“Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.”

Source : Interview with Ed Cumming, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 10, 2012.