"I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner."

“Ultimately, what may be needed to address the obesity problem are direct taxes on body weight.”

Source : "Ex-ObamaCare adviser Gruber: Tax fat people by body weight" by Patrick Howley, www.foxnews.com. February 4, 2015.

“The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.”

“If someone had asked, "How does this compare to kissing Kennedy?" I would have answered, "Who?”

“He was always part of her thoughts, and now that he was real, he was inescapably part of her life, but it was as she had told her mother: saying he was part of her or that they were more than friends sounded like love, but it seemed like loss as well. All the words she knew to describe what he was to her were from love stories and love songs, but those were not words anyone truly meant.”

“There are models who don't eat. That's worrisome - you need the right amount of gas to get going.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com

“There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.”

“So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.”

“Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation”, p.126, Broadway Books