"I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer."

“No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.”

“[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.”

Source : Natural Inheritance Normal Variability (pp. 62-3)

“My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.”

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.278, A&C Black

“Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or been killed, and baits are laid waiting for those that should return. And in these tortured places, the devastation is brutal and total. And this is what greed looks like.”

“I have a sense of destiny that you are led to the things you are supposed to do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“You can, when Time is ripe, swope to your feet - at your full height - at a single gesture. Ready to go where? Why... Wherever God motions.”

“When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.”

“Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy”

Source : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”