"I was never born, I didnt die."

“I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up 'Stars and Stripes Forever.'”

“The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.”

“Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.”

“We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.”

“I was riding my bicycle and I was hit by a Jeep. And the damage that was done to my body was gradually diagnosed, instead of immediately, so the recovery process for me was probably unnecessarily long: It took nearly two years for me to say that I could successfully walk. It was scary. And in a way, when you're faced with something like that, it forces you to change, and very quickly. I think that unconsciously, I felt called to a challenge-a challenge to regain something.”

“My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'”

Source : "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

“A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.”

“Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.127, Penguin