"The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ***** down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?"

“We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams.”

“No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief.”

“I just need time to catch my breath before you take it away again.”

Source : "Fictional character: Simone Deveraux". "Heroes" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2006–2010.

“I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.”

“I can read in any book and newspaper about the city of Detroit, but I want to hear what the people in Detroit have to say about Detroit. My best education is actually talking to people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.”

“As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years.”

Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2012). “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

“Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.”

Source : "Children taught to be suicide bombers" by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, www.cnn.com. June 15, 2010.