"These are the routines that originally 'put me on the map' in the magic world."

“Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.”

Source : Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

“I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.”

“I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.”

“With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant. A lyrical and riveting testament to the strength of the human spirit, as well as the power of family and community. Ward's paragraphs are like songs, lifting us even as the authenticity of this world and these characters keeps the ground in clear sight. This is an extraordinary book by an extraordinary writer.”

“I make movies for my needs. My goal has never, never, never been to make shocking movie.”

“If I were to run for president, it's because I believe in our country.”

“Throughout the three decades preceding the Civil War, the anticlerical ethos of the radical abolitionists was used against them by religious opponents of emancipation, who . . . even described abolitionism itself as an atheist plot.”

Source : Susan Jacoby (2005). “Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism”, p.70, Macmillan

“Correct me if I am wrong, but I personally feel that the Indian body type is not cut out to be size zero. I am not size zero and I don't believe in that either.”

Source : "Padukone: 'Size zero doesn't suit Indians'" by Will Astbury, www.digitalspy.com. March 8, 2010.