"We are the people are parents warned us against."

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”

Source : George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

“I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.”

“The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.”

“The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.”

“A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.”

Source : "Gil Scott-Heron: More Than a Revolution" by Andrew Nosnitsky, pitchfork.com. January 18, 2012.

“If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.”

“That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.”

“I think that Subway has shown their own personal commitment as a company and how they believe in healthy choices.”