"I put a lot of effort in creating something fictional, yet very personal, because Shook is a defining part of me and my music: the Shook entity is much like the Batman or Superman comics characters. I like the idea that I can have this image that represents a part of me, but isn't really me, kind of like an alter ego."

“Don't drink at all, don't smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.”

“Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.”

“There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.79, Macmillan

“People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.”

“hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot”

Source : Lee Child (2008). “Without Fail: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.20, Penguin

“No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.”

“The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.”

“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”