"Free your mind from the colonization of thinking within the obtuse parameters of 'right' and 'left', of conservatives and liberals."

“We all played bad before we played good.”

“Sex for many has become a sorry business, a mechanical release involving neither discovery nor triumph, stressing human isolation more dishearte-ingly than ever before.”

“I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"”

Source : "Song: "I Wake Up and See the Face of the Devil" (Album: "lague Mass")". 1991.

“"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."”

“Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.”

“I irritate the wife because of my private dancing.”

Source : "Brian McDermott, the marine who became a world-beater with Leeds". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

“Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.”

“Be a blessing to someone else.”