"Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing."

“I am very active on Twitter and one thing that keeps popping up is "How do I balance having a kid and writing?" And I know it should not be as aggravating, but I know no one ever asks a male writer that. Or, any male that.”

Source : Interview With Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. January 22, 2016.

“If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

“My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.”

“I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!”

Source : Carlo Collodi (2013). “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, p.229, Lulu Press, Inc

“There's a lot of Latinos right now, a lot of filmmakers and writers that are Latin too.”

“No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

“Everything is divisible. And so is this colossus of U.S. imperialism. It can be split up and defeated.”