"I love spoilers, and I read spoilers all the time. I make people tell me the endings of movies before I go to see them, and yet I refuse to give spoilers. It's kind of unfair, but that's how I roll."

“When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.”

Source : Joan Bauer (2005). “Backwater”, p.53, Penguin

“Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.”

“In the school of the spirit, man learns wisdom through humility.”

Source : Johannes Tauler, Charles Kingsley (1858). “The history and life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler of Strasbourg: with twenty-five of his sermons (temp. 1340)”, p.384

“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”

Source : Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press

“In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.”

“There's a lot more to publishing a book than writing it and slapping a cover on it.”

“We often wonder: "How will I be when I die?" The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now, that's what we will be like at the moment of death, if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.”