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“Time and again-from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring-events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the outside, completely by surprise. Business owners with comparable performance records go bust. Brokers lose their clients. Physicians get sued for malpractice. Yet think-tankers and policy wonks continue to opine, never pausing to reflect on-or apologize for-their spotty records.”
“Excitable, easily distracted, sometimes vacant, prone to gloominess and also extreme euphoria; I canâ€™t be generous with time, but I try to be generous with affection. Iâ€™m really lucky to be able to be in some of these situations and it feels really nice to be able to take people along with me for the ride. Oh, and Iâ€™m a pain in the ***** as well.”
“My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.”
“Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world canâ€™t make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables”
“I like New York better than Seattle. It's bigger. I was really sad when I left, because I miss my friends, but I call them almost every day, and I have friends here now.”

Source : The New Yorker, September 9, 2002.
“I'm a real big electronic music nut; when I was young I listened to musique concrÃ¨te, German music from Cologne in the early 50s, all kinds of stuff.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The only thing I've ever been interested in teaching anyone in life is cricket.”
“Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn”

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