"There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be."

“I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.”

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

“If you don't have a hologram, how can you understand what's going on in the news? Right? Am I right?”

“I needed to enhance the outward threat to Rachel.In the book [Girl on the Train], her inner threat is so strong; the fear of herself and her inability to remember and the false memories. In the film [Girl on the Train]I wanted to increase the exterior threat. So that's why Allison's part was bigger and was an important part of the climax of the film.”

Source : Source: www.buzzfeed.com

“The greatest advantage of being First Lady is the opportunity it presents to truly make a difference on issues of great importance.”

“No one looks or feels attractive when angry.”

Source : Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.143, Penguin

“The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.”

“People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.”

Source : "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.