"The highest reaches of music come thrillingly close to the central core and essence of life itself."

“Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.”

“What is lawful is not always identical to what is right.”

Source : "Ian McEwan: the law versus religious belief" by Ian McEwan, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2014.

“Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.”

“Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.”

“Ready or not, Tell yourself to jump”

“I met a girl who sang the blues and I asked her for some happy news, but she just smiled and turned away. And the three men I admire most, The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost, They caught the last train to the coast The day the music died.”

Source : "American Pie". Song by Don McLean, 1971.

“The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less.”

“It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged.”

Source : Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.68, Random House