I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life Ive done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. – George Saunders
The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. Theres where you get down to bedrock and meet human people. – Robert W. Service
I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. Im going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. Im not having any work done. – Rachel Bilson
Ive always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Hordens animations. – Stephen Fry
The Lord longs to hear all of our concerns — any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. – Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook