"I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,' I happily discovered I was wrong. There is something familiar about my old vinyl. Call it nostalgia, but I don't care for the 'purity' of CDs. They have no personality! The crackle and pop of the stylus on a record player as you wait for the music to begin creates an anticipation that CDs simply can't provide."

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

Source : "On His Books" l. 1 (1923)

“There’s an Oriental saying I like: “If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.”

Source : Matthew Reilly (2015). “The Tournament”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

“Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a reality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe.”

Source : "The Mystic Word" by Adam Kirsch, www.newyorker.com. October 9, 2006.

“They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest.”

“How do I cope with stress? I clean and organize.”

“I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.”

“In any event, the problem in Iran is much bigger than weapons. The problem is the terrorist regime that seeks the weapons. The regime must go.”

Source : David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.96, Random House

“Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.”