"In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to take a religious point of view - because belief does not anger or embarrass me."

“I love to travel, but when I really want to escape, I read a book.”

“We are bound by the secrets we share.”

Source : "Notes on a Scandal". www.imdb.com. 2006.

“Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.”

Source : Abraham Zaleznik (1990). “The managerial mystique: restoring leadership in business”, Harpercollins

“There is nothing more perplexing in life than to know at what point you should surrender your intellect to your faith.”

Source : Margot Asquith (1934). “More Or Less about Myself”

“Nobody comes out of their mother's womb doing cucarachas.”

“But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.41, Counterpoint Press

“I am too sick to be out of bed, too crazy to sleep, and am surrounded by horrors.”

“I want to be more consistent. I wanna get hits. I wanna get my average back up where people think I can hit.”