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“The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.”
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“You're nothing but a product. And what's this product called? Emptiness, dude, that's what it's called. And for the rest of your life, they sell you over and over, right to the end when they package you one last time and plant you in the ground.”
Source : Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.83, Scholastic UK
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“I think the arts are very important for children growing up.”
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“I know there are expectations, but I don't let them affect mt game. I just play basketball.”
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“It might be suggested, and not easily disproven that anything, no matter how exotic, can be believed by someone. On the other hand, abstract belief is largely impossible; it is the concrete, the actuality of the cup, the candle, the sacrificial stone, which hardens belief; the statue is nothing until it cries, the philosophy is nothing until the philosopher is martyred.”
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“Since it is necessary for specific ideas to have definite and consequently as far as possible selected terms, I have proposed to call substances of similar composition and dissimilar properties isomeric, from the Greek ίσομερης (composed of equal parts).”
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“Well, I would have struck him, but I would have had to get up. You have no notion how difficult it is to arrange skirts when sitting down; it took me five minutes together the first time.”
Source : Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.212, Del Rey
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“The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.”
Source : John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.14, Vintage
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“It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.”
Source : Matthew Simpson (1865). “Funeral Address Delivered at the Burial of President Lincoln: At Springfield, Illinois, May 4, 1865”, p.6
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“I did enjoy cooking, I still do really enjoy cooking - I make a nice salmon dish, and Im a huge meat freak, so I love to bang a few steaks on the grill or pasta. Anything Italian, really.”
Source : "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012. 
