"My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements."

“It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we become caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.”

Source : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

“I have a huge ego - I know that. Do I worry about it? No, I think its cool. I have a lot of fun.”

“Well, we have got to understand, for example, Russia is an orthodox Christian nation. So is Ukraine. That happened in 988 in Crimea, a place called Kievan Rus, which was the Russia around Kiev at that time. It's 1,000 years ago, but, to a Russian, it's yesterday.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“You don't get a lot of suicidal vampires.”

“To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.”

“An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"”

Source : John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

“I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

“Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.”

Source : Robert Heller (1984). “The Supermanagers: Managing for Success, the Movers and the Doers, the Reasons Why”, New York : E.P. Dutton