"Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair."

“Magic Johnson was my favorite player growing up.”

Source : "All Bold Everything: A GQ+A With Russell Westbrook". Interview with Lang Whitaker, www.gq.com. January 18, 2013.

“Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.”

“History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.”

Source : Edward Hallett Carr, Robert William Davies (1986). “What is history?: the George Macaulay Trevelyan lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge January-March 1961”

“Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.”

“The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”

Source : James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.22, New Line Publishing

“Puns are a form of humor with words.”

“My first concern was to take care of my drawing. I did not have any knowledge in arts, especially Haitian arts, apart from the paintings I saw in my father's office.”

“I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to,”