"Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time."

“Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.”

Source : "Hard Sell" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

“On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon — and too quickly.”

Source : "Baseball great Kirby Puckett dies", edition.cnn.com. March 7, 2006.

“I eat a lot of whole grains for breakfast, a lot of dried fruit. And my big thing is pasta. I do a lot of simple pasta, with great ingredients.”

“I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.”

“Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."”

Source : Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.94, WaterBrook

“There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?”

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

“Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong, simple, natural sentences.”