"We're grown men; we were kids when we started. Going through life, there are things we've all gone through - life's ups and downs. It's not all roses, but those things that we've gone through have made us stronger as band."

“My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”

“I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.”

“We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.”

“The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.”

“A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”

“It was pretty daunting. Normally, I never go to a gym, but before we started shooting, I thought I'd better. I reckoned I was in really good shape, and then I looked around and I was half the size of everyone else. A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.”

“I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2014). “The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought”, p.4, Picador

“The law of flotation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. Rather, it was discovered by thinking about things that float naturally.”