When I wrote ‘Savage Season,’ it was three years later before I wrote the second Hap and Leonard novel. Whenever I wrote one, I never intended to write the next one. Joe R. Lansdale Read Quote
The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study. Ahmed Zewail Read Quote
My music comes from heartbreak – from feeling what it’s like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn’t make sense. Bibi Bourelly Read Quote
I’m skinny, but a soft skinny. I have strong legs, but my arms are like pea pods with single peas for elbows. Josh Gondelman Read Quote
As a writer, I have this compulsion to take characters who appear formidable and bombard them with adversity until they crumble. What’s interesting is watching them rise again, and seeing how they’ve changed and grown, if indeed they have. Jean Hanff Korelitz Read Quote
When courts rule in our country, we have them as the final arbiter on matters in which we might not agree on. And that is an important pillar of our democracy. Cyril Ramaphosa Read Quote
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! Blaise Pascal Read Quote