"A real love story is sometimes exhausting. A romance is deliberately constructed to yield a certain result; the ambiguities are trimmed out, so it's neater and more pleasing to our hearts. But you don't live a love story, you live a life."

“I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now, you could say he was all right, because he was able to jump. But you could also say he was not all right, because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Irving Finegarten". "S.O.B.", www.imdb.com. 1981.

“In a nutshell, I am a mom, a grandma, and a midwife.”

Source : "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the wind one night.”

“We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.”

Source : "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

“But a piece of paper can be a powerful presence. I have always had enormous respect for the written word and invariably find a letter more revealing than a face-to-face conversation. In a strange way I suspect I will get to know you better at a distance than I would if you had stayed at home ...”

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.172, Penguin

“Do you have to do murder? Do we have to do murder? Sure we have to do murder. There are only two subjects--a woman's chastity, and murder. Nobody's interested in chastity any more. Murder's all we got to write stories about.”

“A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.”

“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”