"I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it."

“When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood and marrow used to be, pushing every other feeling out as it fills you from your feet to your scalp. It leaves you with nothing.”

Source : Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.20, Faber & Faber

“A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 324, 1895.

“I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist.”

“A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.”

“[I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are very little aware of being individuals. Here in the zoo there were other gorillas—but there was no family. Five severed fingers do not make a hand.”

“That race you feel you are a part of is happening only in your mind.”

“Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path...”

Source : Max Ehrmann, “'A Prayer'”

“I don't think I'm destined to be the eternal bachelor.”