"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."

“Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.”

“I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.”

“Something interesting has happened over the last 10 years in the Premier League. Players who once would have been discarded as expensive and too old have become important parts of title-winning squads.”

“Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing the benefits and costs. Benefits include cultural and other non-monetary gains along with improvement in earnings and occupations, while costs usually depend mainly on the foregone value of the time spent on these investments.”

Source : "The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

“When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.”

“Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.”

Source : Brett Abbott, Edward Weston, J. Paul Getty Museum (2005). “Edward Weston: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.60, Getty Publications

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”

“Prose, narratives, etcetera, can carry healing. Poetry does it more intensely.”