
I'm just going to go out there and try to win the race. When you go out there trying to go for a record, you're usually not going to get it. —
Ryan Lochte

But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story. —
Laura Hillenbrand

Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear,
by which I mean pajamas. —
Holland Cotter

We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future. —
Holland Cotter

The Cuban-born Mario Algaze has a Chambian way of collapsing present and past. —
Holland Cotter

Art is by nature promotional, pushing beliefs, broadcasting status, aggrandizing personalities. —
Holland Cotter

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are. —
John Bradshaw

Everybody manages one way or another; everyone who is alive and reading this book has managed. —
Sylvia Boorstein

If the customer loves you, the government will have to love you. —
Jack Ma

Running is my church. —
Joan Van Ark

You've got little time on earth, make each day count —
Sunday Adelaja

Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles. —
Holland Cotter

Ethan glances down at our linked hands as though confused as to why he's touching me, before he finally - finally - gets his shit together. —
Lauren Layne

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us. —
Friedrich Nietzsche