"Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate."

“I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to be attentive to words in a very specific, very concrete, very literal way.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“It's never good to just imitate somebody. That never works, because then you're not filling it with anything.”

“If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers.”

Source : "Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile". Book by Ron Kaufman, 2005.

“Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.”

“I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.”

“The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”

“I moistened my lips. His gaze fixed on them. I think I stopped breathing. He jerked so sharply away that his long dark coat sliced air, and turned his back to me. “Was that an invitation, Ms.Lane?” “If it was?” I asked, astonishing myself. What did I think I was doing? “I don’t do hypotheticals. Little girl.”