"Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent."

“My books are not really books; theyre endless chains of distraction shoved inside a cover. Many of them begin at the search box of Pub Med, an Internet database of medical journal articles.”

“Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.”

“That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.”

“The problem was to get judges who were not afraid to prosecute Saddam despite intimidation and threats.”

“The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English.”

Source : Jean Giono, John Cumming (2001). “An Italian Journey”, p.36, Northwestern University Press

“Once upon a time, each of us was somebody's kid. Everyone had a father, even if he never provided anything more than his seed. Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger's doorstep. No matter how we're eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.”

“I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.”

Source : "Meet Under the Dome's 'Romantic to a Fault' Heartthrob, Alexander Koch" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. September 16, 2013.

“I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.”