"The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years."

“When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in control from their first 'Once upon a time'. I'm not one of them. Every once upon a time for me is another experience of white-water rafting in a leaky inner tube. And I have this theory that while the Story Council has its faults, it does have some idea that if books are going to get written, authors have to be able to write them.”

“To garden is a solitary act.”

Source : Michelle Cliff (1980). “Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise”

“I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.”

“San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here.”

“The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.”

Source : "Rachel Johnson: 'To anyone under 20 I'm basically Methuselah'" by Rachel Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

“Reverend Jesse Jackson, President-for-Life of the People's Republic of Himself.”

“When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.”

Source : Bill Walton (1995). “Nothing But Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way”, Hyperion

“We each have our lives... What matters is not how long those lives last, but what we do with them.”

Source : Kevin J. Anderson (2011). “Hidden Empire: The Saga Of Seven Suns - Book One”, p.234, Simon and Schuster