"My time will come, that is: after the finish of the recurring song cycles"

“Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.”

“If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.”

“Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.”

Source : David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.254, W. W. Norton & Company

“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.”

“Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth”

Source : "Affronts, Insults and Indignities". Book by Morris Mandel, 1975.

“Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.”

Source : "Monckton saves the day!". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 6, 2007.

“Under the skin, intense fires burn.”

“Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land.”