"If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it."

-- Toni Morrison

“Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.”
“The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.”
“If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rythmn of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten”
“I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.”
“I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again.”
“To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.”

Source : Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.
“If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States. All of the evidence is that what would occur is that corporate profits would increase by approximately the value of the permits.”
“There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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