"I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages."

“What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.”

Source : "An everyday tale of country folk". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2001.

“I'm trying to stay as healthy as possible but there's no pressure to be really skinny. No. That's just a bit wrong.”

“Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.”

Source : Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.386, Random House

“I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.”

“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.”

“This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.”

“I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.”

“When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.