"Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green"

“I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is to be in the world.”

“Never give up. Look forward to the future, and don’t give a damn about haters”

“The world of rumors and gossip is a world of wish fulfillment. And one of the things that gives volume and amplitude to a rumor is that it satisfies people's dreams and expectations about the world...”

Source : "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

“Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.”

Source : "The Sea-Limits". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

“It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process.”

Source : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

“It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.”

Source : David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.6, Oxford University Press

“Well, back to the old drawing board.”

Source : Cartoon caption, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 1941

“From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.”