"So many characters are governed by the consequences of their actions, and I wanted to have a character who is the exact opposite."

“A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.”

Source : "Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2012.

“I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a ritualized behaviour: they simplify or formalize, repeat (sometimes with variation), exaggerate, and elaborate in both space and time for the purpose of attracting attention and provoking and manipulating emotional response.”

“We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process.”

Source : "Balancing Acts" by Anthony Lane, www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2014.

“Is beer good for runners? Sure...if it's the other guy drinking it.”

“If we build more windows and fewer walls, we will have more friends.”

Source : Alan Loy McGinnis (2003). “The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for”, p.26, Augsburg Books

“One way of looking at Impossibility Theorem is that we proposed some criteria for what a good system should be: what is it you want from a voting system, and impose some conditions. And then ask: can you have a voting system that guarantees that?”

Source : Source: electology.org

“If one is not a living mockery of one's own ideals, one has set one's ideals too low.”

Source : Charles Ludlam, Steven Samuels (1992). “Ridiculous theatre: scourge of human folly : the essays and opinions of Charles Ludlam”

“I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.”

Source : Patricia A. McKillip (2015). “Od Magic”, p.82, Hachette UK