"With complete consecration comes perfect peace."

“And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising our of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer--apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of times vicissitude.”

“That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.”

Source : Nick Harkaway (2008). “The Gone-Away World”, p.103, Random House

“My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.”

“The timelessness is completely important. It's partly about removing things that would become in some way nostalgic. There aren't really any markers of time, like furniture or a particular style of shoe that denote a particular period or place. I think that's why I like the outdoors, because it removes a sense of time and I want the painting to feel timeless, because it increases that sense of omnipotence.”

“I agree with Pres. Barack Obama, Iraqis need a political solution. No war in Iraq!”

“It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.”

“I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the rosebud Let me among the clean grasses Drink the drops of dew Which sprinkle the tender flower”

Source : Paul Verlaine (1948). “Forty Poems”