"Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

“I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.”

“I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.”

“Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.”

“Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!”

“The modern wars are also omnipresent in our electronic media - to be cynical about it, we now have 24 hours of non-stop bloodshed available to us. The internet and real-time media reporting were integrated into daily life in Iraq.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

“It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you can remember dreams that are like reflections, daytime thinking slightly warped.”

“That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.”

Source : Tracy Chevalier (2010). “Remarkable Creatures: A Novel”, p.41, Penguin