"Marijuana allows one to take a breath and see the realities of a situation without the news beating their interpretation into our brains. Pot relaxes you."

“Good thing it's a fight and not a modeling contest or you'd be f#cked.”

“One of the great dangers on the spiritual path is that the ego becomes spiritualized. The ego loves to think of itself as spiritually evolved. It is just another way that it manages to feel important and in control. It is very difficult to free yourself from an enlightened ego.”

“Someone now has to step up and take on the mantelpiece”

Source : "Quotes of the year - Part 1: The daftest quotes from players, managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 27, 2008.

“I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.”

“In this country protection has always, to some extent, existed; but at some times it has been efficient, and at others not; and our tendency toward freedom or slavery has always been in the direct ratio of its efficiency or inefficiency.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1859). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.365

“Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.”

“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”

“For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).”