"I feel like the seventies was a decade where things ran out, and where other things set in. There was just a lurking graininess and seediness about the decade, a slight grogginess of the hangover from the sixties."

“Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.”

Source : Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.135, Macmillan

“Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.”

Source : Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

“Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.”

“What matters is who we are, not who we beat.”

“Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.”

“Love is self-explanatory: the right person makes you feel well nigh immortal, vaccinating you with their affections. So long as you remain in their heart you are safe, or better than safe even, for a while at least. You are momentarily, in a state of grace.”

Source : Jonathan Hull (2000). “Losing Julia”

“I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things.”

“I was once in a bar with a friend of mine, we were having a drink and a bunch of people walked in and they were talking about how, "It's official, there's going to be a 'Friends' reunion," and I'm sitting there with my friend going, "No, no, there's not."”

Source : "‘Friends’ creators Q&A: They just tried to make a show ‘that didn’t suck’". Interview with Bethonie Butler, www.washingtonpost.com. February 21, 2016.