"When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition."

“If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.”

“I'd never have written the big books in London.”

“A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.”

“God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.”

“To survive, you must tell stories.”

Source : Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I'm in a great situation because I know what kind of player I want to be, I know where I'm going to be, and I know what I have to do to get there and I'm around the right guys.”

Source : "La'el Collins Q&A: Cowboys Rookie on Murder Investigation and Draft Plummet". Interview with Bleacher Report, bleacherreport.com.

“All Juleps are made for present use, and therefore it is in vain to speak of their duration.”

Source : Nicholas Culpeper (1785). “The English Physician Enlarged: With Three Hundred and Sixty-nine Medicines, Made of English Herbs, that Were Not in Any Impression Until this : Being an Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of this Nation ...”, p.335

“Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.”