"We do not write as we want, but as we can."

“God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.”

Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

“The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.”

Source : Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

“This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.”

“Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.”

Source : "Ronaldinho tells Sportsmail why England fail in tournaments, the best opponents he's faced and why Rooney would walk into the Brazil squad". Interview with Alex Kay, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 4, 2013.

“After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.”

“[Albert Camus] was viewed by many as an austere moralist, but it was on the football pitch and in the theatre that he learnt his 'morality'. It's something sensed, it won't pass uniquely through thought. It couldn't possibly.”

“I had wanted to come back to Greenwich Village ever since I had left Waverly Place, and since moving to West Eleventh Street, I have never lived anyplace else. I do not want to. That is not because of what the Village is but because of what I have made it, and what I have made it depends on who I am at the time.”

Source : Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, when I was Young”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.”