"I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job."

“The only thing worth thinking about, when I write a story, is whether I like it, whether I want to write it, whether it excites me.”

“There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2012). “How It All Began: A Novel”, p.147, Penguin

“You gotta try something people ain't seen before, and you gotta go to the gym and work on your dunks. In a slam dunk competition, don't show up with three dunks. You got to have eight or nine dunks because if you get into the finals and two guys may do the same dunk or one guy does the dunk better than the other.”

Source : "Dime Q&A: Darryl Dawkins Reveals The Origin of His Nickname And Recalls His First Dunk". Uproxx Interview, uproxx.com. August 4, 2011.

“When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

“I just watched the news. Seeing crazy people doing crazy stuff to other people and pretending that they're the good guys really helped.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.”

“Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.”

“Obscenities... I think a lot of dumb people do it because they can't think of what they want to say and they're frustrated. A lot of smart people do it to pretend they aren't very smart - want to be just one of the boys.”