"It's very meditative to watch Food Network shows. I mean, you might be taking notes, but you're probably not. It's meditative to watch someone cook, just like it is to watch your mother cook, or anyone cook."

“Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews...”

“In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.”

Source : Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”

Source : Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1999). “The Fencing Master”, Harcourt

“Don't trust people whose feelings change with time... Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.”

“With every kiss, we'll promise this, we'll find a way to light the dawn of all we wish.”

“Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the NLRB action against Boeing and IRS's gift tax assault on 501(c)(4) donors. They look like examples of crony capitalism, bailout favoritism and gangster government. One thing they don't look like is the rule of law.”

“I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.”

Source : Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.180, Penguin

“You hear about how many fourth quarter comebacks that a guy has and I think it means a guy screwed up in the first three quarters.”