"Next generation leaders are those who would rather challenge what needs to change and pay the price than remain silent and die on the inside"

“When you are not writing, you are a writer too. It doesn't leave you.”

“Nothin' taken for granted, just learn from my mistakes. My will too strong, my spirit's somethin' they can't take.”

“Peacekeeping there is still just totally ineffective. The UN is now saying they are sending reinforcements in the area, but I have no particular reason to believe that they will be any stronger than the force there. In Southern Kordofan, it's mostly an Egyptian battalion, and that's really problematic because the population already doesn't trust the Egyptians; they think they're on payroll of the north. So we already have a force that is seen as compromised.”

“That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”

“Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.”

Source : "A wise guy playing the fool to win". Sunday Times, July 16, 2000.

“What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!”

Source : Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.239, The Overlook Press

“Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.”

Source : Issa Kobayashi (1991). “The dumpling field: haiku of Issa”, Swallow Press

“When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love you." And then you try to figure out some rhyme for that, and there never is one.”