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“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.”
Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011 
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“Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.”
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“Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.”
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“The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.”
Source : "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.
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“Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next.”
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“If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”
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“The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.”
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“Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.”
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“Focus attention and energy on making a difference in the lives of others, and success might follow as a by-product.”
Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.181, Penguin
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“I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.”
