"If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face."

“There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.”

“I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute I'm sitting around eating chocolate chip cookies and then all of a sudden I'm thinking about bears.”

“With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.”

Source : "Cusanus: A Legacy of Learned Ignorance". Book by Peter J. Casarella, 2006.

“Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”

“Only a few people have the background of Nick Saviano to take a player to the next level of excellence”

“I think, on the whole, men are much more shallow than women,”

“My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.”

“To gain the book, one must give up all hope for the book. It is the only way the book can get written.”

Source : Bonnie Friedman (1993). “Writing past dark: envy, fear, distraction, and other dilemmas in the writer's life”