"You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything."

“I don't know what I think until I write it down.”

Source : "Joan Didion Survives 'The Year of Magical Thinking'". Interview with Susan Stamberg, www.npr.org. September 30, 2005.

“She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.”

“Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.”

Source : Hugo Grotius (1814). “The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations”, p.12

“I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.”

“At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.”

“Every something is an echo of nothing”

“We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.”

“Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.”