"Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience."

“Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.”

“Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.”

Source : "Speeches and Writings of Mr. Jinnah". Book by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, p. 175, 1960.

“it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.”

Source : Edna O'Brien (1974). “A Scandalous Woman, and Other Stories”

“Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies”

“We might say that the dream tranforms the dreamer; that it possesses the ability to 'initiate', to bestow new meaning, to motivate new beginnings (Latin: initium - beginning), to permit our entrance (literally 'en-trance'; Latin: inire init - to go in) to new orders of relation between ourselves and the 'other'.”

“Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.”

“I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.”

Source : ""Life Is Unfair": Talking Inequality With The Hedge Fund Industry's Biggest Cheerleader". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 5, 2015.

“Nutrition has always played a huge role in my life. I became a vegetarian when I was 13 and then got my entire family to become vegetarians. And I have always been active my whole life. I genuinely enjoy sports and I spend time on my total gym.”

Source : "Christie Brinkley Is 'Energized' About 2009". Interview with Jennifer Garcia, people.com. January 18, 2009.