"The word psychedelic gets bandied around far too often for my liking and it's generally just about three skinny lads singing about nothing, you know? But there's nothing more psychedelic than kids is there? Childhood is like being on acid most of the time anyway."

“We are in the middle of a tough, ideological conflict that is being waged across the entire continent. On the one side are those who say that global challenges like migration and terror cannot be met with national parochialism. On the other side are those who would like to see a renaissance of the nation-state.”

“The freedom of the press should be inviolate.”

“a single leaf falling autumn is everywhere...”

“I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.”

“The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.”

“Appearing better than others is always dangerous, but most dangerous of all is to appear to have no faults or weaknesses. It is smart to occasionally display defects, and admit to harmless vices, in order to deflect envy and appear more human and approachable. Only gods and the dead can seem perfect with impunity.”

Source : Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.16, Profile Books

“I believe that the existing power structures in Europe and Northeast Asia are not sustainable through 2020.”

Source : John J. Mearsheimer (2003). “The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition)”, p.402, W. W. Norton & Company

“A monk is a man who considers himself one with all men because he seems constantly to see himself in every man.”

Source : Evagrius (Ponticus), John Eudes Bamberger (1970). “The praktikos: Chapters on prayer”, Cistercian Pubns