"Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible."

“My heart feels not so much in my chest as in my hands. I am carrying it along swiftly, as though I have become the messenger for what is going on inside me.”

Source : "Foster" by Claire Keegan, www.newyorker.com. February 15, 2010.

“Most people think of death as the end, when in fact, death can be the beginning.”

“The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.”

“The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.”

“And it was most important to do what one knew was right, for otherwise the day might come when one could no longer tell the difference between right and wrong.”

Source : Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics

“& if I'm fake I aint notice cause my money aint”

“If a writer understands his work as something that originates with him but then, with any luck, gets away from him, then what he needs is someone who can grasp the potential of the piece and lead him to that higher ground.”

“There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.”