"We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross."

“Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don’t let life slip by unnoticed.”

“I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.”

“I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax." I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in the fitting room behind me. He was wearing jeans and a snug white tee. His arms were folded loosely over his chest, and his black eyes smiled down at me. Heat that wasn't entirely uncomfortable flushed through my body. "I could make all kinds of pervert jokes right now," I quipped.”

Source : Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.772, Simon and Schuster

“We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations... Lord, we come with great expectations.”

Source : Song: Great Expectations

“For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy.”

“In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.”

“You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.”

Source : Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

“The majority of my work is about preparation.”

Source : "Taryn Simon: the woman in the picture". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2011.