"Everyone has his own particular talent, niche and interests. Which isn't to say that you shouldn't try new genres or styles or explore forms other than the ones you're most comfortable with. But you should be willing to recognize that when writers try to make themselves into something they aren't or, more important, don't want to be ... they aren't going to be doing their best work."

“All religions are sick men's dreams, false - demonstrably false - and pernicious.”

Source : Ibn Warraq (2010). “Why I Am Not a Muslim”, p.11, Prometheus Books

“Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.”

“Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy.” – Chloe Traeger”

“You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.”

“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”

“To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I was in a state of cold storage.”

“I've become more confident as I have got older. I care less what others think.”

Source : "Helen McCrory: 'Most of the attention I get is from younger men'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2013.

“You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com