"The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living."

“I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.”

“If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won't last long.”

Source : "Howard's Den". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 1, 2007.

“To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.”

Source : "David Beckham interview - Why I'm not ready to finish playing yet". Interview with Paul Vercammen, www.totalfootballmag.com.

“She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.”

“I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.”

“It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard”

Source : Jude Morgan (2011). “Indiscretion”, p.115, Hachette UK

“The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.48, Delphi Classics

“The bluebird carries the sky on his back.”