"A woman who doesn't care what men think of her - ah, this is dangerous. This is the worst conceivable insult to the male ego."

“And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.”

“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”

Source : Quoted in Alan Harrington, Life in the Crystal Palace (1959).

“Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.”

“To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.80, The Overlook Press

“My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.”

“If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.”

“I liked the scenes with the baby, but the baby steals all the scenes that you're in. So that would get old after a while, because the baby is too perfect. I liked being high on ecstasy.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“A true leader must have enough backbone to stand alone - even when the crowd wants to take the easy road home. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone.”