"An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal."

“In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.”

“When something weighs on your conscience, give it up.”

“I am no I. I am now part of a we.”

Source : Jerry Pinto (2014). “Em and the Big Hoom”, p.78, Penguin UK

“Really, I'm pretty laid-back, always cracking jokes.”

Source : "Chace Crawford: Likes Sonic Burgers, Looks Sharp in Suits". Interview with Margarita Bertsos, www.glamour.com. January 6, 2010.

“I am afraid! It is not starving I fear, or talking to people, or even being alone. But I cannot bear to be useless and ineffectual. There must be some meaning to me, if not to my life; there must surely be some purpose that has my name written on it. If this is not so, if I am deceiving myself about this too, then why should I want to become real? What reason have I to live anywhere?”

Source : Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

“I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.”

“How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?”

“The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.”