"I've spent the last decade learning to stand firm and face my problems… or at least batter them until they're unrecognizable."

“You're different. You're more perfect. Time is three things for most people, but for you, for us, just one. A singularity. One moment. This moment. Like you're the center of the clock, the axis on which the hands turn. Time moves about you but never moves you. It has lost its ability to affect you. What is it they say? That time is theft? But not for you. Close your eyes and you can start all over again. Conjure up that necessary emotion, fresh as roses.”

Source : "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

“My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much.”

“It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.”

Source : Louis Theroux (2009). “The Call of the Weird: Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner”, p.30, Da Capo Press

“I don't criticize political or electoral freedom, but capitalism's perversion of the concept: the illusion that I hold the power over my own life.”

“I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.”

“Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name”

“All I have told is true, but it is not the whole truth.”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane (1988). “A Little House sampler”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

“We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.”

Source : Charles Handy (1995). “The Age of Paradox”, Harvard Business Press