"Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys."

“By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.”

“Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.”

“Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.”

“Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.”

Source : Alessandro Manzoni (1962). “The Betrothed, "I Promessi Sposi": A Tale of XVII Century Milan”

“I hear music as narrative.”

“Returning to writing fiction after years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's what I had wanted to be for my entire life, since I can remember, since my particular time immemorial. It's how I got my start as a writer.”

“Have as much fun as you can and don't feel that the edge of your canvas confines you - let your vision go right on.”

“Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never know what is going to happen. What is really at dispute is how we will deal with not knowing.”

Source : Steven Galloway (2014). “The Confabulist: A Novel”, p.115, Penguin