"I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic."

“You see, I have no real complaints of how you've left your past behind I guess what gets me worried is you've erased him from your mind.”

“I think the environmental movement is now so large and diverse that it's hard to talk of it as a single entity.”

“This is stolen? We're in a stolen jet?" "Not stolen," said Donegan Bane from the co-pilot's seat. "Almost stolen," Grascious corrected. "Semi-stolen," said Donegan. "Quasi stolen," said Grascious. Aurora's frown did not turn upside down. "So is it stolen or not?" Donegan and Grascious hesitated. "Yes,"they both said toghether.”

“The passing of the years awakens in our hearts the cry for permanence.”

“Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.”

Source : John Wesley (1980). “John Wesley”, p.93, Oxford University Press

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”

“I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.”

“They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.”