"For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art."

“As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.”

“Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.”

Source : "Books for giving: science" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

“The tragedy of journalism lies in its impermanence; the very topicality which gives it brilliance condemns it to an early death. Too often it is a process of flinging bright balloons in the path of the hurricane, a casting of priceless petals upon the rushing surface of a stream.”

Source : Vera Brittain (2012). “Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby”, p.229, Hachette UK

“Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.”

“He has made peace with himself, as Isaac the Syrian says, and heaven and earth have made peace with him. He is gathering the fruit of humility. But this takes place only on the narrow way, and few there be that find it.”

“Always be nice to everyone in the firm on the way up. You never know who you may meet on the way down.”

“If the police don't defend us, maybe we ought to do it ourselves.”

“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.”