“My 'idea' has always been my passion. Not only do I have to be a good photographer technically, but also have to be able to capture the emotion of the moment.”

As quoted in "Literary witness to century of turmoil" in China Daily (24 November 2003) http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/24/content_284041.htm

Letter to the Bailli de Ploën, as quoted in Recollections of the Private Life of General Lafayette (1835) by Jules Germain Cloquet, Vol. I, p. 24
Context: An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas, and the truth of prophecy, has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover, and with the conviction of a geometrician. On leaving college, where nothing had displeased me more than a state of dependance, I viewed the greatness and the littleness of the court with contempt, the frivolities of society with pity, the minute pedantry of the army with disgust, and oppression of every sort with indignation. The attraction of the American revolution transported me suddenly to my place. I felt myself tranquil only when sailing between the continent whose powers I had braved, and that where, although our arrival and our ultimate success were problematical, I could, at the age of nineteen, take refuge in the alternative of conquering or perishing in the cause to which I had devoted myself.

Source: Love Among the Chickens

June 1932 Henry and June
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

On women, as quoted in "Jack's Women" at Unforgivable Blackness at PBS (2005) http://www.pbs.org/unforgivableblackness/knockout/women.html

“The Sitters” (p. 73); originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, April 1958
Short Fiction, Skirmish (1977)

Source: Kevin Hindle, Kim Klyver Handbook of Research on New Venture Creation http://books.google.co.in/books?id=nFb7U0qKJNgC&pg=PA79, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1 January 2011, p. 79

Bella Swan and Jacob Black, p. 332
Twilight series, Eclipse (2007)