"It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up."

“I am a believer in free will. If my dog chooses to hate the whole human race except myself, it must be free to do so.”

Source : Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Castle in the Air”, p.31, Harper Collins

“People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.”

“Wearing a bath towel around the school yard and pretending it's a cape doesn't mean you have magical powers.”

“When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.”

“It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.”

Source : "Q&A with 'Last Days' star Michael Pitt". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.tailslate.net. July 21, 2005.

“I don't want to die an old lady.”

“You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.”

“Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance”

Source : Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.9