"If you're afraid of being grabbed by God, don't look at a wall. Definitely don't sit still."

“Every emotion is keyed into some bodily location, and taken all together, they form the emotional body.”

“We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.”

“[Dissidents] groups would benefit enormously from learning about Ho Chi Minh's ideas on how to defeat a more popular enemy.”

“When I'm by myself, I'm not threatening at all. I get many more invitations than I would if I were traveling with anyone else, especially with a man. But I'm rarely alone. I sit on a park bench and I'm not alone because I pick a park bench where somebody interesting is sitting.”

“When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens.”

“The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.”

Source : Lydia Millet (2014). “Mermaids in Paradise: A Novel”, p.85, W. W. Norton & Company

“The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.”

“The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent”

Source : " 'Fair and effective' Straw lays down the law" by Michael White, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2000.