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“Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.”
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“I've come to understand that arguing with [my wife] about it has never solved anything. So instead of denying it, I've learned to take her hands, look her in the eyes, and respond with those three magic words every woman wants to hear: "You're right, sweetheart.”
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“On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed. Inside, he was in a world of hurt. He saw black flashes before his eyes. He saw himself falling through the air. He knew what he was turning into. He was turning into the worst kind of human on the planet: an old bitter dork. Saw himself at the Game Room, picking through the miniatures for the rest of his life. He didn't want this future but he couldn't see how it could be avoided, couldn't figure his way out of it. Fukú.”
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“exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.”
Source : Phyllis Chesler (2013). “An American Bride in Kabul: A Memoir”, p.144, St. Martin's Press
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“You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.”
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“I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.”
Source : "Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.
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“Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.”
Source : Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 19 July 1988, Atlanta GA
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“My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on Angela's Ashes but as a child I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress and I did loads of acting summer schools,”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
