"I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming."

“The American public's a lot more sophisticated than we all give them credit for. And on complicated issues, I'm going to give them straight answers. And if it takes more than three minutes, I'm going to do it.”

“Who's driving this car, Stevie Wonder?”

“People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.”

“Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart...”

“When war is declared, truth is the first casualty”

Source : "Falsehood in Wartime". Book by Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, 1928.

“To the extent that I considered the personal burden of harming the people who had trusted me, plus the Agency, or the United States, I wasn't processing that.”

“As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.”

Source : "Edgar Bronfman Jr. Steps Down as Warner Music Group Chairman" by Lucas Shaw, www.thewrap.com. December 5, 2011.

“How did you . . . pass the time?’ Sunday asked. ‘You couldn’t just ching out of it, could you?’ ‘We had a different form of chinging,’ Eunice said. ‘An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it “reading”.”

Source : Alastair Reynolds (2012). “Blue Remembered Earth”, p.187, Hachette UK