"You need to get really clear about whether this is your inner voice or just a desire that you have."

“Once when Bion was at sea in the company of some wicked men, he fell into the hands of pirates; and when the rest said, "We are undone if we are known,"-"But I," said he, "am undone if we are not known.”

“People get way too much credit at funerals.”

“Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?”

“I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league.”

“But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.”

Source : "New Again: Pete Doherty". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2016.

“You are the soul that fits into mine”

Source : Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.1198, Delacorte Press

“Wild animals are not meant to be owned, any more than human beings are. Nobody has the right to pass a cougar or a gorilla on from hand to hand.”

Source : Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books

“Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.”