"I can't travel without Sudoku."

-- Robert Ballard

“I never really enjoyed the fame stuff.”
“Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.”
“Running long offers a dress rehearsal. Running long teaches the stress of lifting feet 5,000 times per hour. Running long builds confidence.”
“I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.”
“They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice.”
“I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.”

Source : "Memorable Quotations: Jewish Writers of the Past" edited by Carol A. Dingle, 2005.
“Rock and roll is the new pornography.”
“A comeback is possible so let's hope it's a good day for us. Arsenal is a very fast team but we can get through.”

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