Kaufer Quotes

#1. I write because I know that one day I will die, and thus I should experience as many deliberate observations, careful thoughts, wild ideas, and deep emotions as I can before that day occurs.

Amy Tan

#2. My dogs.
Bill Blass, after being asked "Who or what is the greatest love of your life?" by Vanity Fair magazine

Bill Blass

#3. Well now everything dies, baby that's a fact. But maybe everything that dies, someday comes back. - Bruce Springsteen, Atlantic City

Harlan Coben

#4. I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.

Dave Matthews

#5. Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

Margot Kidder

#6. The vicious circle of life is employment

Sunday Adelaja

#7. PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.

Kary Mullis

#8. My favorite picture is a picture of American soldiers surrounding a guy in a foxhole, Iraqi soldier, and the American guy says, "We're not going to harm you. We're American soldiers."

George H. W. Bush

#9. I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't ... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Helen Oyeyemi

#10. We met among tall pines, separate blood, divided by arms and hands and hearts and lungs that all held the same wounds - mine

Anne Valente

#11. A scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings

Neal Stephenson

#12. I want to repeat myself, Mrs. Boisgointier. These are not my children but I thank you as if they were. I will pray for your safety and your ability to assure theirs. Whatever happens, the world will remember you.

Cecile Kaufer

#13. If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?

ONE

#14. It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

Anthony Burgess

#15. Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

Mo Udall