"Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings."

“In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.”

“Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.”

“I never, never supporting any violence and everybody that know me, and all the countries here they know well that is no one, nowhere that the former prime minister will become terrorist to hurt their own country. No way.”

“When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.”

Source : Richard Powers (2010). “Generosity”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

“Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.”

“You just can’t live in Texas/if you don’t have a lot of soul.”

“You'd better not be trying to steal that," she said. The boy shrugged and reached for the small rolling suitcase at her feet. "I wouldn't dare." "Because I'm an excellent yeller." "I don't doubt it." "And fighter. My cousin gave me this nail file... the thing's just like a switchblade.”

“It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.”