"In reality, Mom just really hates me having short hair."

“If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.”

Source : I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.227, PublicAffairs

“But I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ, 'Go into all the world and preach.' He who said 'preach,' said also, 'Go ye into and preach,' and what Christ hath joined together let not man put asunder.”

Source : James Gilmour (1892). “James Gilmour of Mongolia: His Diaries, Letters and Reports”

“We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.”

Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.107, Penguin

“My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.”

“We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.”

“The US economy today is in really bad shape. Our economic growth is minimal, our regulatory burden is horrific, taxes are high, businessmen are not investing in growth, and consumers and government are loaded up with debt.”

“The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they find themselves in. And contained in the blues is a philosophical system at work. And as part of the oral tradition, this is a way of passing along information.”

“If I ever bore you, it'll be with a knife.”

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