"I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist."

“What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.”

“In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.”

Source : Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

“Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.”

Source : "Michael Connelly’s Biography/ FAQs". www.michaelconnelly.com.

“Feminists do the best Photoshop because they leave the meat on your bones. They don’t change your size or your skin color. They leave in your disgusting knuckles, but they may take out some armpit stubble. Not because they’re denying its existence, but because they understand that it’s okay to make a photo look as if you were caught on your best day in the best light.”

“All dope can do for you is kill you... the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you.”

“The writer is the person who stays in the room.”

“If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”

Source : "Why Uzo Aduba Wouldn’t Change Her Nigerian Name For Acting headshot" by Jessica Dickerson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2014.

“Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.”