"Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama."

“If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.”

“Perfect preparation doesn’t exist. Excellent adaptation does.”

“The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay.”

“Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.”

Source : Ten rules for writing fiction (part two) by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true.”

“I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the ‘hollow reed’…”

“Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.”

“Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.”