"In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten."

“I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.”

“One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.”

“In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.”

“None of us is as smart as all of us.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 13, 2012

“The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical.”

“Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.”

Source : "'Blind Side' Story's Real-Life Happy Ending: Super Bowl Victory". abcnews.go.com. February 4, 2013.

“Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.”

“The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.”

Source : "Novelist Jay McInerney on Getting Your Novel Underway". Interview with Anne Bowling, www.writersdigest.com. March 11, 2008.