"The question I should have asked is not what is the rule, but what is the principle."

“All amateur travellers have experienced horror journeys, long or short, sooner or later, one way or another. As a student of disaster, I note that we react alike to our tribulations: frayed and bitter at the time, proud afterwards. Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn (2001). “Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir”, p.13, Penguin

“I’d like to be the kind of actor who is remembered for my character. You know how there are cases where even when you watch all the way through the end of a drama, you remember the actor’s name, not the character’s. I want my character’s name to be more remembered than mine.”

“When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them!”

“To love is simply to allow another to be, live, grow, expand, become. An appreciation that demands and expects nothing in return.”

Source : Kate Millett (2000). “Sita”, p.181, University of Illinois Press

“I think that being liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, noncomitted to a cause but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen.”

“As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

“It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.”

“No one can explain exactly what happens within us when the doors behind which our childhood terrors lurk are flung open.”

Source : W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.46, Vintage Canada