"Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus"

“I never socialized with singers. It's very dangerous if you work with opera... I don't think that in 30 years a singer has entered my apartment.”

“So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.”

“If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.”

“Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.”

“The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.”

Source : "Apple's software updates are like changing the water in a fish tank. I'd rather let the fish die" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2014.

“Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?”

“I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake and it really removes you from it.”

“I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.”