"Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today?"

“I don't want to be a playwright, I want to be a rock and roll star.”

“Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.”

“The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I dont think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.”

“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”

“There's been no top authority saying what ***** does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.”

“The Obama campaign was smarter, quicker on their feet than the Clinton camp.”

Source : "Edward Klein on 'The Amateur,' Obama's Faith". Interview with Paul Stanley, www.christianpost.com. May 30, 2012.

“Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.... My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather would say we ought to go out and look at it once in a while so we don't lose our place in it.”

“With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.”

Source : Norman Mailer (2013). “The Deer Park: A Novel”, p.368, Random House