"Despair is as hollow and deceptive as hope!"

“Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.”

“In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled on its own terms. It can't be handled as you go out of that and go back into natural institutions or natural law or divine revelation. Something outside of the system has to tell you the system has gone wrong.”

Source : Source: www.realclearreligion.org

“I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.”

“I shall know you, secrets by the litter you have left and by your bloody footprints.”

Source : Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”

“Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a genetic miracle, a superior woman.”

“If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.”

Source : Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.227, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“Should we now explain to UK couples who plan a family that stopping at two children, or at least having one less than first intended, is the simplest and biggest contribution anyone can make to leaving a habitable planet for our grandchildren?”

“Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Dec 04, 2010