"All the uglinesses of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature!"

“Josh had told me a long time ago that he had this theory that an entire relationship was based on what occurred over the course of the first five minutes you know each other. That everything that came after those first minutes was just details being filled in. Meaning: you already knew how deep the love was, how instinctually you felt about someone. What happened in their first five minutes? Time stopped.”

Source : Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.56, Penguin

“It's all economic. Soda is easier to sell than orange juice because its costs less. Water, some coloring, some fizz, and this can, and we can sell this to you over and over and over again. And that's what rap is.”

“It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.”

Source : Charles Finch (2007). “A Beautiful Blue Death”, p.62, Macmillan

“We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again”

“Every child in America who enters school at the age of five is mentally ill, because he comes to school with an allegiance toward our elected officials, toward our founding fathers, toward our institutions, toward the preservation of this form of government that we have. Patriotism, nationalism, and sovereignty, all that proves that children are sick because a truly well individual is one who has rejected all of those things, and is truly the international child of the future.”

“We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.”

“Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”

“Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.”