"If my peers had a significant impact on my music, my music would probably be a lot more popular."

“Though we have been stuffing them into classrooms and cubicles for decades, our brains actually were built to survive in jungles and grasslands. A lifetime of exercise can result in a sometimes astonishing elevation in cognitive performance, compared with those who are sedentary.”

“Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.”

“I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me.”

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

“The Universe doesn't like secrets. It conspires to reveal the truth, to lead you to it.”

Source : Lisa Unger (2010). “Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You”, p.441, Crown

“Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.”

Source : "Forever Young". Interview With Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

“So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.”

Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

“Returning his pen to its holder, he told us, 'I will have him gutted with that scythe. I will hang him by his own intestines.' At this piece of dramatic exposition, I could not hep but roll my eyes. A length of intestines would not carry the weight of a child, much less a full grown man.”

“There, in the depths of sleep, is the communion of the living and the dead.”