"I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where Quakers and revolutionaries Join for life"

“Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.”

“As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.”

Source : "David Cassidy: My family values". Interview with Juliet Rix, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.

“All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.”

“With iPhones, nobody has an excuse for writer's block. If you're at Whole Foods getting your green tea extract and you have a melody, you just drop it into your voice memo and save it for later.”

“Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.”

Source : "Double vision". Interview with Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2007.

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”

“You will find that your taste buds have a memory of about 3 weeks.”

Source : Neal D. Barnard, Bryanna Clark Grogan (2008). “Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes without Drugs”, p.64, Rodale

“Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.”