"Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it."

“With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly turning pages to find out what happened in the past and what will happen next. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, it is a powerful new work of fiction by an internationally acclaimed writer at the height of his powers.”

“If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.”

Source : "The Friends of Voltaire". Book by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, 1906.

“To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization.”

“Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy”

Source : David Joselit, Joan Simon, Renata Salecl, Jenny Holzer (1998). “Jenny Holzer”, Phaidon Inc Ltd

“I want what I want when I want it.”

“There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.”

“My family immigrated from Korea when I was four years old, and when I started school, I didn't speak English. I remember that other kids would blame everything bad that happened in kindergarten on me - I spent a lot of time "in the corner" because I literally didn't have the words to explain that it wasn't me!”

Source : Source: www.elle.com

“This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate.”