"I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films."

“The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.”

“From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.”

Source : Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber (1834). “The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.26

“There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.”

“We're all nurtured by mother nature's cycles and seasons.”

Source : "On the Verge" with Costa Georgiadis, www.abc.net.au. March 31, 2012.

“Murdoc is sort of the, um, it’s his band. He sort of put Gorillaz together. It’s his idea. But he’s sort of an ugly, sort of, snaggle-toothed Satanist who didn’t actually get the job of being the lead singer ‘cause he isn’t very handsome. So, 2D got the job, which is always going to piss him off.”

“Children can be disgusting, and often they can develop extraordinary talents, but I’m yet to meet any child who can stimulate his carotid arteries inside his ribcage.”

“It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am.”

Source : "Thom Browne Addresses Pratt Seniors on the Future of Fashion". Interview with Rebecca Moss, www.elle.com. April 26, 2013.

“Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love”