"My country or the stars Or my youth, what's farthest?"

“Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.”

“Traitors are more dangerous than enemies.”

“Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.”

“Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.”

Source : Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

“I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.”

“I`m not Sammy Glick. I`ve never killed anyone. I don`t have to. I`m too talented.”

“We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.”

“My questions did surprise some people. Others didn't bat an eye. That happens with all my books - I'll read them in a certain mood and think, "Gosh, what was I thinking that day? This is really kind of odd." But on other days it seems totally normal to me.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com