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“So if the euro, if Euroland is to become a reserve center, if the euro is to become a reserve currency, Euroland will have to have a deficit in its overall balance of payments.”
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“V-Day...if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for "your loved one" I think it's quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It's all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
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“Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.”
Source : "Merritt Wever: ‘Nurse’ Zoey May Have Secrets of Her Own". Interview with Jackie Strause, pagesix.com. July 31, 2009. 
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“If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.”
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“Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.”
Source : Taylor Mali (2012). “What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World”, p.23, Penguin
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“The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.”
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“All anyone can hope for is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.”
Source : Edwidge Danticat (2004). “Krik? Krak!”, p.14, Soho Press
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“As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me.”
