"I must still look perplexed because Gale delivers the next line very slowly. “Katniss…he’s still trying to keep you alive.” To keep me alive? And then I understand. The Games are still on."

“I get a craving like I fiend for nicotine. But I don't need a cigarette, know what I mean?”

Source : Song: Microphone Fiend

“Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.”

“Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.”

“Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.”

“At this stage in my career, I don't have to take any big risks. You want to take a calculated risk, not one that leads to people saying 'yes, but there was that one time when she made that big mistake.' It's always a shame when that happens, especially if you've gotten by for decades without anything hugely tragic.”

“The penalty for planting the wrong thing in the wrong place is death.”

Source : Cassandra Danz (1998). “Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams”, Crown

“I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.”

“In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.”

Source : Benjamin E. Mays (2011). “Born to Rebel: An Autobiography”, p.22, University of Georgia Press