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“I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.”
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“There is no doubt that constitutional freedoms will never be abolished in one fell swoop, for the American people cherish their freedoms, and would not tolerate such a loss if they could perceive it. But the erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all-out frontal assault but rather as a gradual, noxious creeping, cloaked in secrecy, and glossed over by reassurances of greater security.”
Source : "Life in the Shadows of the Empire" by Eamon Martin, www.counterpunch.org. March 18, 2006. 
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“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.”
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“I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.”
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“... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.”
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“Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way.”
Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.107, Penguin
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“I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.”
Source : "What they were saying at the Oscars", www.sfgate.com. March 2, 2012.
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“What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.”
Source : Interview with Pamela Kort, michaelwerner.com. April, 2003.
