"Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen."

“I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.”

“With a novelist's sense of drama and a historian's understanding of the social forces that shape our lives, Tom Gjelten has captured vividly -- through the chronicle of a powerful family's fortunes -- one of the great political dramas of our time.”

“I personally believe that the writing of personal and family histories will do more to turn the hearts of the children to the fathers and the fathers to children than almost anything we can do”

“By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of simplicity. In this new simplicity you soon find that you have become, in a new and surer sense, and integral part of the simple, complex world you are walking through. And then you are really walking.”

Source : Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.849, Knopf

“There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.”

“[St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.”

“Think of me getting up before 6, I'm at work by 7 and I continue until 6.30 in the evening, standing up all the time, nine canvases. It's murderous...”

“You couldn't always control life, just your response to it.”

Source : C. C. Hunter (2012). “Whispers at Moonrise”, p.227, St. Martin's Griffin