"I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen."

“The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.”

Source : Xunzi (1999). “Xunzi”

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”

“Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.”

“I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living.”

“I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.”

Source : "Action Bronson in the Lap of Luxury". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.

“The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.”

Source : Mark Hopkins (1852). “Receiving and Giving: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown , Ms. August 15, 1852. Published by Request of the Class”, p.20

“For me, literature is the daughter of music: a bit heavy and more level headed than its mother. Literature submits to the same principles of successive perception, which allows it to build progressively.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.”