"True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ."

“Today never feels like it will be history, but it will. And more likely than not, you will look back and realize that you should have known.”

“I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.”

“As children, as we learn what things are, we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults, entirely submerged in words and concepts, we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future, hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.”

“What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word.”

Source : Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

“If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.”

Source : "The Dinosaur Heresies: A Revolutionary View of Dinosaurs". Book by Robert T. Bakker (p. 16), 1986.

“Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.”

Source : James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.979, Dell

“If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.”

“I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy, an economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.”