"I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we’ve passed the audition."

“Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.”

“La Maga did not know that my kisses were like eyes which began to open up beyond her, and that I went along outside as if I saw a different concept of the world, the dizzy pilot of a black prow which cut the water of time and negated it.”

“One of the most memorable moments was when I first saw earth because I had seen many pictures, many videos of earth from space, and being able to see that with my own eyes had a completely different effect, and sort of almost sensing life emanating from our planet in the dark background of the space, it was a really memorable experience.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

“Debts and lies are generally mixed together.”

Source : "Pantagruel". Book by Francois Rabelais, Book III, Chapter V, 1532.

“Men need to feel important. They feel better when they're with younger girls or unknown girls.”

“In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.”

“There's nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about our lives - the broken parts, the secret parts, the beautiful parts - then the gospel comes to life, an actual story about redemption, instead of abstraction and theory and things you learn in Sunday School.”

“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”

Source : Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”