"Breeze turned to look out the window. "You were always the best of us, Sazed," he said quietly. "Because you believed in something."

“And then I graduate two years later, in 1998, with my class. And, since then I've been here in Houston for training basically. And I was very happy to be assigned to this mission.”

“A woman who has style doesn't necessarily need designers - designer wear. A woman who has style can put on any frock or dress or pant or whatever and still bring something to it.”

Source : "Model Remembers Oscar De La Renta As An 'Extraordinary Gentleman'". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. October 21, 2014.

“I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book”

“I have I guess 3 passions. One is the Constitution. The other is jazz and the other is being an atheist prolifer which, of course, gets me in a lot of trouble - all of which combines into free expression.”

Source : Source: www.rutherford.org

“Superstition is just another form of thought like any other, a form that accentuates and regulates the association of ideas, it's an exacerbation, an illness, but, in fact, all thought is sickness, which is why no one ever thinks too much, at least most people do their best not to.”

Source : Javier Marías, Margaret Jull Costa (1997). “Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me”, p.217, New Directions Publishing

“I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year's running. There were other good players around but I think I was the best at that time.”

“I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?”

“Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity. It's the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.”