"I used to buy everything at garage sales. It was hard to give up! I’d be like, ‘But this crazy sweater is amazing, and it only cost 25 cents!’ "

“My take on the torture thing and even drones is: If we're going to get into assassination and torture, the second question is the morality, but the first is the effectiveness of it.”

Source : "Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

“The morning sun Radiantly Rises above the frosty woods.”

“Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.”

“A hot bath! How exquisite a vespertine pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigours, the austerities, the renunciations of the day.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.101, A&C Black

“When the wine is ready, that's when we'll drink.”

“Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.”

“It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.”

“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”