"Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases."

“He has everything a boxer needs except speed, stamina, a punch, and ability to take punishment. In other words, he owns a pair of shorts.”

“I’ve found the perfect partner.”

“[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.”

“I do consider myself an actress now. I think Dig and Transparent have given me the confidence. I've been working as an actress, it's something that I have to continue to earn, but I do feel like it's a part of me. It's something that I love, and to not acknowledge it would be false.”

“I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.”

“One must not be shy where language is concerned.”

Source : Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.198, Bloomsbury Publishing

“Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.”