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“Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.”
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“Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.”
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“I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take.”
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“While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.”
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“In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.”
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“I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.”
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“There is a complete disconnect really or should be a disconnect between the retail price of the milk and what's actually going on in the marketplace, and what influences the farm gate price is the export market.”
Source : "The Observer Effect" with Ellen Fanning, www.sbs.com.au. September 29, 2013. 
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“People who have experienced nothing love to tell stories while people who have experienced a great deal suddenly have no stories to tell at all.”
Source : Daniel Kehlmann (2010). “Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes”, p.23, Vintage
