My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East.

She had no recollection, later, of having decided what to do next, or of having hunted for something to wear, but somehow she was hurrying down the stairs, dressed in shadowhunter gear, the letter in one hand and the chain with the ring clasped hastily around her throat.

Cassandra Clare

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

Keith Richards

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

Cyril Connolly

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Benjamin Franklin

The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value

Irving Fisher

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.

Albert Einstein

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

Martha Beck

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.

Samuel Johnson

Your silence gives consent.

Plato

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

Art Garfunkel

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Dennis Prager