"The rhythm of the ride carried them on and on, and she knew that the horse was as eager as she, as much in love with the speed and air and freedom."

“Discretion prevented me from saying that I thought she was a fiend from the underworld and that mountain lions couldn't force me to enter her service.”

“I began my career in Los Angeles and started working fairly quickly.”

“The easiest person to fool is yourself.”

“You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.”

“Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them”

“nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music”

Source : Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.13, Penguin

“I think everybody has a public persona. We all present ourselves.”

Source : "Bob Odenkirk on Better Call Saul's "Mr. Spock chess" and a Mr. Show reunion that isn't a Mr. Show reunion". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 5, 2015.

“If we stopped wasting people's time, what would they do with it?”