"Some friendship is closely akin to treachery."

“We all know our dates of birth but . . . every year there is another date that we pass over without knowing what it is but it is just as important it is the other date the death date.”

Source : Ali Smith (2015). “Hotel World”, p.104, Penguin UK

“In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat.”

“Tell me what's the difference”

“I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.”

“In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.”

“Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.”

“Colors do not exist separately and independently within nature; they are constantly shifting in response to subtle gradations of light. It is language that, magnificently, gives them clear shape.”

“The imagination, backed by great expectations, can bring about almost any reality within the range of probalities.”