"You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average."

“Maybe the purpose of the space program [NASA] is to prepare the world for Big Brother - the New World Order.”

“I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D.C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.”

“So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.”

“The knives of jealousy are honed on details.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Oct 30, 2011

“Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.”

“We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.”

“If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.”

“A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers.”

Source : Reginald Arkell (1938). “More Green Fingers: Another Present for a Good Gardener”