"There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing."

“For me, art begins when there is something left that cannot be explained.”

“Giving birth was easier than having a tattoo.”

“My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.”

“The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.”

“Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.”

Source : Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate (2010). “The Book of English Magic”, p.48, The Overlook Press

“Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it.”

Source : H. Rider Haggard (2012). “King Solomon's Mines”, p.44, Courier Corporation

“The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.”

Source : Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.472, Regnery Publishing

“My peers accept me and respect me, and that's enough.”