"In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving..."

“Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do.”

Source : "Character: Doris Haddock". "Run Granny Run", 2007.

“Insight makes argument ridiculous.”

“When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.”

Source : "Jennifer Jason Leigh: Fearless Leigh". Interview with Michael Fleming, movieline.com. April 1, 1999.

“Unfortunately, our affluent society has also been an effluent society.”

“Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.”

“If we are what we eat, why aren't we new, improved, fat-free, and light.”

“Footsteps in the snow suggest where you have been, point to where you were going: but when they suddenly vanish, never dismiss the possibility of flight...”

Source : Diane Duane (2003). “A Wizard Alone”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.”