"I grew up with action movies in my head."

“When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact… I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.”

“I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to let go.”

Source : Melanie Benjamin (2010). “Alice I Have Been: A Novel”, p.338, Delacorte Press

“You will never solve the American problems just by printing money.”

Source : "Quest Means Business" with Richard Quest, www.cnn.com. October 1, 2012.

“Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.”

Source : "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering". Book by Fred Brooks, 1975.

“I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.”

“There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.”

“In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.”

“satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.”