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“It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.”
Source : Robert Silverberg (2009). “Dying Inside”, p.116, Macmillan
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“The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.”
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“At the age of 50, I did "Celebrity Fit Club" and I had to get on a scale and be weighed in front of everyone. I felt like I was naked and for the first time, there was nowhere to hide. I felt like I could finally be myself. It was really cathartic, and I realized I could share my mistakes. I could tell my story and not be ashamed, and show others with these same problems that they aren't alone.”
Source : "Maureen McCormick: 'I hit rock bottom'". Interview with Al Roker, www.today.com. October 14, 2008. 
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“Stretch your mind and fly.”
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“Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.”
Source : Interview with Arthur J. Rolnick, www.minneapolisfed.org. June 1, 2004.
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“She watched me with a creepy sort of detached curiosity, as if I were a bug crawling across the sidewalk in front of her. I wondered briefly if she was the ant stomper type.”
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“There was always a slug on the lettuce. This was too good to be true. He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David. He wasn't going to let his gaurd down just yet. Being carful had kept him alive this far. There was no reason to stop being careful now.”
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“We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.”
