"Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged."

“Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.”

“I mean the reason that I started writing close to home, "Santa Fe," et cetera, was a kind of looking back on past events. I don't know, it's just some of the dark spaces I've been. And it feels like with a music career and whatnot, I've been able to crawl out of those places. So it's interesting to look back on them and try to hold on to the feeling of what you went through.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these.”

Source : Interview with Marc Grossman, www.cfr.org. April 14, 2010.

“No man is born into the world whose work is not born with him.”

“I hate the uncultivated crowd and keep them at a distance. Favour me by your tongues (keep silence). [Lat., Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Favete linguis.]”

“Gardening is certainly the next amusement to reading.”

Source : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1856). “The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.376

“Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are.”

“There are... scientific works - star catalogues, for example - which are not art; but the theoretical structures of Gauss, Einstein, or Maxwell are original, individual, "very personal" responses and expressions of exactly the same kind as the creative works of Beethoven or Dostoievski.”

Source : James R. Newman (1956). “The World of Mathematics”, p.2012, Рипол Классик