"Does art play a role in the greater good of society, or does it just promote the satisfaction of the artist? I go back and forth on that question."

“Unfortunately many scientists see themselves too much as priests whose job it is to preach moralistic sermons to people. This is another legacy of the 1968 generation, which I happen to belong to myself. In fact, it would be better if we just presented the facts and scenarios dispassionately - and then society can decide for itself what it wants to do to influence climate change.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

“Instead of starting a new nuclear arms race, now is the time to reclaim our Nation's position of leadership on nuclear nonproliferation efforts.”

“Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.”

Source : Angie Sage (2012). “Magyk: Septimus Heap”, p.430, A&C Black

“The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.”

Source : "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922" edited by Christoph Vitali, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, exhibition catalogue (p. 41), 1991.

“I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of it OK.”

“All it takes is one person who is committed, focused, and on a mission to spark an entire team into believing in themselves.”

“It is very important that you should choose the person you will marry and stay with that person. There are many people now who believe in serial love, loving one person after another. I don’t think that is good for our mental health. I think we should get it over with. Love is like measles, you know. You only get it once in your lifetime and you are immune forever. I am very happy to say that is what happened to me. I am completely immune to any temptation. All men who have passed my life after I got married might as well have been sticks of furniture.”

“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.”