"I asked my vet what kind of dog he'd get. He told me, 'I'd get a Chihuahua, because when it died, I wouldn't care."

“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.”

“I think shareholders are the great evil of this modern world.”

“The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.”

“And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.”

“Never trust a woman whose father calls her 'Princess'. Chances are she believes it.”

“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”

Source : Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.40

“I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.”

“It is really a tightrope sort of thing, living.”