"Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband."

“Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.”

“There's nothing like a good family when you're really up a tree.”

“Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.”

Source : David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage

“Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk”

“Live fast, fight hard, no regrets!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.”

“I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I’d call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.”

Source : Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.151, Hachette UK

“As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.”