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“The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.”
Source : Joanna Russ (1980). “On Strike Against God”, Crossing Pr
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“I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.”
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“Some writers find that they don't know their themes until they've finished the first draft (I am one). They then rewrite with an eye toward balancing on that tightrope: not too contrived, not too rambling; does what I'm saying about the world below me actually add up to anything? Other writers pay attention to these things as they write the first draft. Either way, an awareness of the macro and micro levels of theme can provide one more tool for thinking about what you should write, and how.”
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“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”
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“When I look at a pie chart, I just go numb.”
Source : "Software brings Johnny Cash back to life". Interview with Brandon Ancil, www.cnn.com. April 21, 2011. 
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“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.”
Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once around the sun”
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“There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.”
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“The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.”
Source : "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.
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“Goodbye, my friend, goodbye My love, you are in my heart. It was preordained we should part And be reunited by and by. Goodbye: no handshake to endure. Let's have no sadness - furrowed brow. There's nothing new in dying now Though living is no newer.”
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“The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.”
Source : Douglas McGregor, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld (2006). “The Human Side of Enterprise, Annotated Edition”, McGraw Hill Professional
