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“How can you stand touching her?†my sister blurted, staring at our clasped hands. “Doesn’t that hurt?†I seized on the change of topic. “These gloves are specialized rubber. They block the current.†Gretchen’s gaze traveled over Vlad, disbelief still stamped on her features. “Yeah, but how do you two do anything else, unless he has a special, currentrepelling glove for his—†“Gretchen!†my father cut her off. My cheeks felt hot. Don’t say a word, I thought to Vlad, seeing his chest tremble with suppressed laughter. “He has a natural immunity,†I gritted out.”
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“I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.”
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“I am not now, nor I have ever been, relevant.”
Source : "Ideas as Art". Interview with Diane Coutu, hbr.org. October 2006. 
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“If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.”
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“It was in His parting sorrow--that Jesus asked His disciples to remember Him; and never was entreaty of affection answered so; for ever since has His name been breathed in morning and evening prayers that none can count, and has brought down some gift of sanctity and peace on the anguish of bereavement, and the remorse of sin.”
Source : James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”
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“Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.”
Source : "Montel Williams...still the talk of the town". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.
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“I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.”
