"New studies show that 100% of all smokers die."

“Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.”

“The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that's my idea of a good time.”

“I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night.”

“[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once.... The time... is of the order of two billion years.... Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.”

“Sometimes we are given exactly what we need. The precise people that you need the most come stumbling into your life. Sometimes you don't notice, and this is very sad. Sometimes you lose them again. This is sad too, but not as sad. Because what you have once had together you have forever.”

Source : Linda Olsson (2013). “The Memory of Love: A Novel”, p.147, Penguin

“Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.”

“I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.”

Source : "Postal service album keeps on delivering" by Rodrigo Perez, www.mtv.com. September 16, 2004.

“The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.”