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“Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue”
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“Six months is the most you can ask of any fan in this day and age, with the Internet and all these new artists. I understand that my music is in a lot of mediums. Some people want me to make an R&B album. Some people want me to never sing again. I just don't want people to be able to draw comparisons between my old songs and my new ones.”
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“An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contemporary, where it would be foolish of me to try to enter. But I can claim my own phenomenon...”
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“Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.”
Source : Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.14, Verso
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“God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.”
Source : Patrick Kavanagh (2002). “No Earthly Estate: God and Patrick Kavanagh : an Anthology”, Columba Press (IE)
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“...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.”
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“It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.†It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?”
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“We should be building great things that don't exist”
Source : "With I/O speech, Larry Page reminds us why Google rules tech" by Michael V. Copeland and Marcus Wohlsen, www.wired.com. May 16, 2013. 
