"There's a major fault in Western society. It makes room for only one god, and in only one gender. There's no balance, no co-existence, no partnership."

“When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.”

Source : "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book II, ch. 5), 1688.

“The amazing thing about Freak Out! was that there was nothing quite like it in rock 'n roll at the time. It was really simultaneously crude and ugly, and incredibly sophisticated. The Beatles were funny, but there was nothing with the kind of sneer that you could feel in the music of Frank Zappa.”

“In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.26

“You have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other. We must find better ways to honor and support the basic goodness of our children, especially in social media.”

“I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them. "It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.16, Macmillan

“Reason is the illusion of reality”

“You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.”

“When you go out and audition, you're going to hear a lot of 'No's.' As weird as it may sound, you almost have to love hearing 'no' because you're going to hear it way more than you hear 'yes'.”