"Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been."

“I'm seeing myself as an outsider a little bit - definitely when I started the band. I knew what band's name meant and nobody else really did, so I'd be on stage every night and say, "Hello, we're Art Brut" - basically saying that we were rejects. But I mean, I didn't really sing, it did feel a bit like we were outsiders. It was a bit tongue-in-cheek when I first named the band that, but then we slowly turned into that - like a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.”

“I'm not honestly a real student of animation. I never was into it all that much. I don't really watch any animated shows.”

“Neither angel, nor archangel, nor yet even the Lord Himself (who alone can say "I am with you"), can, when we have sinned, release us, unless we bring repentance with us.”

“Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.”

Source : Julio Cortazar (2014). “Hopscotch: A Novel”, p.216, Pantheon

“Americans think their danger is terrorists. They don't understand the terrorists cannot take away habeas corpus, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution.... The terrorists are not anything like the threat we face from our own government in the name of fighting terrorism.... The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown”

“It's pretty easy to hear what people are physically responding to versus what's just flat as a pancake in the room when it comes to jokes.”

“Only in sport? The qualification would seem meaningless to many Australians. What also is there that matters as much as sport? It is only in sport that many Australians express those approaches to life that are un-Australian if expressed in any other connection.”