"We all have our personal Andes."

-- Nando Parrado

“[Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.”
“Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery”
“Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.”
“There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a hottest part implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.”
“The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant.”
“Every ailment, every sickness and every disease can be traced back to An organic trace mineral deficiency”
“Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.”

Source : Alexander Crummell (1861). “The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A letter to Charles B. Dunbar ...”, p.31
“But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.”

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