"So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt."

“To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.”

Source : Maurice Blanchot (1981). “Folie Du Jour”

“It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken”

“Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.”

“There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.”

Source : "Fatherhood on the Fringe". Interview with Larry Getlen, www.aarp.org. November 18, 2010.

“Putting People First was progressivism revived, and at its best.”

Source : "The Policy Wonk in the War Room: Reflections After 20 Years" by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

“Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.”

“The inner life of the [imagination], and not the personal and tiny experiential resources of the actor, should be elaborated on the stage and shown to the audience. This life is rich and revealing for the audience as well as for the actor himself.”

“I hate that we look at women who choose not to run a country as having given up. I get angry that, when a woman decides to hold off on gunning for a promotion because she wants to have a baby, other women whisper that 'she's throwing away her potential.' That is when we're not supporting our own. Who are we to put such a limited definition on success?”

Source : "Zosia Mamet on Why She Won't Lean In, Thanks". www.glamour.com. May 15, 2014.