"To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love."

“A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”

“Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.”

Source : Source: www.raintaxi.com

“Why are we proud? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend--or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it.”

“Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.”

Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.259, New York Review of Books

“Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.”

Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.92, Wave Books

“As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand”

“The secret in riding is to do only a few things but to do them right”

“I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.”