"When you witness the end of a life up close day by day, you begin to understand time and mortality in profound ways. You see time's relativity, death's necessity."

“What's the use of watching? A watched pot never boils ...”

Source : Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1102, BookCaps Study Guides

“An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.”

Source : "Fisher v. Prince", 3 Burr. Part IV. 1365, 1762.

“Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.”

“If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. June 23, 2004.

“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”

“The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.”

Source : "The Essentials: 5 Elia Kazan Films You May Not Know". www.indiewire.com. February 22, 2013.

“The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.”

Source : Ptolemy (1984). “Ptolemy's Almagest”, Bloomsbury Academic

“When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.”