"Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart."

“People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.”

Source : MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

“Cats invented self-esteem.”

“I'm no lyrical stylist; you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.”

“Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.”

“The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.”

“The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,”

Source : Josiah Strong (1963). “Our Country”

“Religions survive mainly because they brainwash the young.”

Source : A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

“Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they've been fixed, then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don't go around peeing on the furniture and such.”

Source : "Feingold Rides the Zeitgeist Over Eleanor Clift" by Digby, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.