"People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles have formed in summer. Potted trees revive and suddenly look fresh when a florist sprinkles water on them, while papier-mâché turtles hanging out for sale move in the wind and take on souls."

“In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world.”

Source : Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

“When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere.”

Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.49, Vintage

“I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.”

“Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.”

Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

“I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!”

Source : Interview with Karen Borsari, www.shape.com. October 24, 2012.

“Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to refrain from killing and to liberate creatures instead.”

“More people laugh at us than with us, however it may appear at the moment.”

“He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had come to accept that this would only be half as good as the original, half as acceptable as the flawless, unachievable novel that had acted as a guide, and which he imagined pulsating mockingly behind each book like some ghostly presence.”