"I loathe most crossover music. Yet I like to think when it comes to Code it's something different."

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.”

“You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.”

“They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?”

“My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me. Every gleam of sunshine is blighted to me in the art at least. Can it therefore be wondered at that I paint continual storms? "Tempest o'er tempest roll'd" - still the "darkness" is majestic.”

Source : Letter to C.R. Leslie (1834), "John Constable's Correspondence," ed. R.B. Beckett, vol. 3, p. 122, 1962-1970.

“It's flattering to be compared in any way to Tiger Woods, because he's the best player in the world.”

“There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.”

“Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience”

“If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.”