"All science touches on art; all art has its scientific side."

“You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.”

“People should get married because they have finally seen the folly of being single: "Oh, this is all just kind of a bad magic trick. I just keep bending over to reach for this wallet on a string. How much longer am I gonna do that?"”

“With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!”

“It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.”

“Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.135, Ballantine Books

“Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.”

“The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.”

Source : George Plimpton (1994). “The Best of Plimpton”, p.48, Atlantic Monthly Press

“Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.”