"I go gladly to my wife and boy, and I leave this world at peace with every one in it and at peace with God."

“Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.”

“Not everyone’s a lifer in this world, but what separates the wheat from the chaff is intellect. Intellect is a true indication of taste. Some smart kids are standing in these EDM festivals, in the mud and heat and sick, and they’re thinking, “Yeah, this is fine for now, but this can’t be it forever”. There’s got to be something better – but they have to find it for themselves. That’s the next generation right there.”

“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”

“I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.”

“The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid.”

“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”

Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1964). “Best Ghost Stories of J. S. LeFanu”, p.302, Courier Corporation

“Death frees the beast.”

“I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.”