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“You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.”
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“Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?”
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“Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism. Though travel was never so easy, literature on art never so profuse, and works of art never so widely distributed, a real passion for pictures is encountered but rarely.”
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“I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and animals and the ants- perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you in your mother's womb. Is it logical you would be walking around entirely orphaned now? The truth is you turned away yourself, and decided to go into the dark alone. Now you are tangled up in others, and have forgotten what you once knew, and that's why everything you do has some weird sense of failure in it.”
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“Useless as a pulled tooth.”
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“In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it.”
Source : "Defense secretary warns against fighting more ground wars" by Larry Shaughnessy, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2011. 
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“I believed that if I was to call myself a writer, I should live on writing. If I could not live on it, even simply, I should destroy every scrap, every trace, every notebook and live some other way.”
Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.58, Everyman's Library
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“Fear first made gods in the world.”
Source : Publius Papinius Statius, David Roy Shackleton Bailey (2003). “L207n Statius Ii”, p.199, Harvard University Press
