"The map appears to us more real than the land."

“Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.”

Source : "National Economy and the Banking System of the United States". Book by Robert Latham Owen, p. 102, 1939.

“It's pretty hard to say no when a vice president-elect and a president-elect ask you to be part of the national team.”

“You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower , Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven .”

“Most of us have the residue of thousands of songs in our ears, that if you end up songwriting, I think you're mostly smoking the residue of all that material you absorbed over time.”

“I want to get my Masters in business.”

Source : "Q&A – RJ Mitte (Walter Jr.)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

“I love fashion. I think it's so important, because it's how you show yourself to the world.”

“Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.452, eBookIt.com

“A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.”