"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."

“So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.”

“It's a mindset, it's all in the mind.”

“I like the idea that neither makes any romantic move until their philosophies are aligned.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.”

Source : E. M. Delafield (2015). “The Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated): The Provincial Lady Series, Zella Sees Herself, The War-Workers, Consequences, Gay Life, The Heel of Achilles, Humbug, Messalina of the Suburbs (Including Short Stories and Plays)”, p.2296, e-artnow

“I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people falling in and out of love or whatever is not enough. Enough Said had that stuff, but I wanted it to be fun and funny while also grounded in reality.”

“Know and believe in yourself and what others think won't disturb you.”

“There can be no doubt that our descendants will learn to exploit the energy of fusion for peaceful purposes even before its use becomes necessary for the preservation of human civilization.”

Source : "Conference proceedings, Volume 1, Nuclear fusion. International Atomic Energy Agency". Artsimovich Memorial Session of the Seventh International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, 1978.

“You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.”