"Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me...."

“These children should be enrolled in Independent Living programs designed by state and local governments to prepare them to enter the workplace, or attend college, and successfully manage their lives.”

“Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow.”

“At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and … every decision is individual,”

“The future is not something to be predicted, it’s something to be achieved,”

Source : Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott (2016). “Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World”, p.148, Penguin

“Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!”

Source : "Not the Greatest" by Robert Lipsyte, www.slate.com. November 9, 2011.

“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.”

“To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.”

Source : Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.12, Faber & Faber

“If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it”