If sex were all, then every trembling handCould make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.

My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.

Erika Slezak

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle

Cassandra Clare

The greatest blessing that one can get from music is that it makes an artist immensely satisfied with life irrespective of the financial condition in which they may be.

Ram Narayan

America's two great specialties are demagogues and rock and roll, and we've all heard plenty of both in our time.

Stephen King

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

E. O. Wilson

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

Jean Cocteau

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

Edward Gibbon

A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost In wonder, love and praise.

Joseph Addison

My favourite thing to wear is a saree.

Amy Jackson

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Alexander Pope

The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.

Joshua Foer