"After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is."

“We saw people sleeping in homeless encampments in Napa Valley and Sonoma. Horrific ones in Watsonville. It's different because you're looking at homelessness and the lack of housing, less than something that's institutionalized.”

“Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2016). “Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue”, p.74, Pickle Partners Publishing

“We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.”

“The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.”

“I try to write the most embarrassing thing I can think of.”

“Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.”

Source : Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.336, Atlantic Monthly Press

“The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.”

Source : "Mission of Gravity" by Hal Clement, (Ch. 9), 1954.

“First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with all its massive resources, get directly involved in aiding American education?' The answer this law gave was a loud 'Yes!' - and thus we paved the way for a new era of support for education in America. This law, in fact, helped make possible more than 50 new education laws passed in my administration.”