"Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains."

“Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.”

“Queen Elizabeth, she's the ultimate hypocrite!”

“The world is more outlandish than some people’s imaginations.”

Source : Niall Williams (2014). “History of the Rain: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014”, p.6, A&C Black

“If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell's boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.”

“If you're attacking your market from multiple positions and your competition isn't, you have all the advantage and it will show up in your increased success and income.”

Source : Jay Abraham (2000). “Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition”, p.14, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

“School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.”

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

“We are diverse, big time. Sully is the main man, which makes sense as the lead man of the band. Tony and myself are quiet; I need to be begged to do these interviews. But it comes down to being a team, that is the main thing. Knowing, understanding and accepting our roles.”

“[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.”