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“Iran is the only country around the negotiating table that has not been attacked by either al-Qaida or Daesh.”
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“Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.”
Source : Mia Couto, David Brookshaw (2006). “Sleepwalking Land”, p.39, Profile Books
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“Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.”
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“The facts of the matter are that we have known for a long time that diagnoses are often not useful or reliable, but we have nevertheless continued to use them. We now know that we cannot distinguish insanity from sanity.”
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“I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.”
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“Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.”
Source : Meg Wolitzer (2008). “The Ten-Year Nap”, p.209, Penguin
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“What's your hurry? There is nothing up ahead that's any better than it is right here.”
Source : Mark Richardson (2008). “Zen and Now”, p.50, Vintage
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“You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.”