"I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever."

“There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact with the warm, constant flow of humanity. They live in pain, and exist only to visit that pain on others. A random glance, the momentary lingering of a look, is enough to give them the excuse that they seek. Sometimes, it is better to keep your eyes on the gutter for the fear that, by looking up, you might catch a glimpse of them, black shapes against the sun, and be blinded forever.”

Source : John Connolly (2015). “The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

“I've never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them.”

“I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.”

“The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.”

“Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.”

“Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days.”

Source : "Our Muses, Ourselves: Why Women Like Me Run Away From Home" by Holly Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

“Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.”

Source : Luanne Rice (2006). “Firefly Beach”, p.122, Bantam

“What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?”