"You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life."

“We had been so close to missing each other, he and I. He had turned out to be the greatest gift of all.”

Source : Jacqueline Kelly (2009). “The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate”, p.333, Macmillan

“I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's any grudges I should start.”

Source : "First Feed Birds, Then Procrastinate". Interview with Cara Buckley, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 2009.

“Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.”

“The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.”

“This flag .. is raised not without costs, .. without the costs of having struggled for many years, without the costs of having lost so many lives in order to have a free and sovereign and good Afghanistan.”

“No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.”

Source : Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more”, p.1110, e-artnow

“I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.”

“This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.”