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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
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“Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration.”
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“I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago.”
Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. April 13, 2012. 
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“Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy.”
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“I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.”
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“The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire. "Don't say I never took you anywhere nice," Peter says. "Wouldn't dream of it," I say.”
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“I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.”
Source : "Watch Rebekah Brooks' emotional speech in which she says she feels ''vindicated'' by phone hacking verdicts" by Jason Beattie, www.mirror.co.uk. June 26, 2014.
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“The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.”
Source : "Taiye Selasi on discovering her pride in her African roots" by Taiye Selasi, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2013.
