"A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him."

-- Jostein Gaarder

#Kings Quotes #Heart Quotes #Missing Him Quotes

“The album feels like a new era for me -- emotionally, lyrically, sonically. It feels fresh, it feels new. It's still me. It's still stuff that fans know and love but it's a new chapter 100 percent.”
“And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall Orpheus made the trees and the stones dance and so forth, and this is something which is in almost all primitive cultures. I think it has some definite basis to it. I'm not sure what. It's like telekinesis, which I know very well on a pinball machine is perfectly possible.”
“Life is a whirlwind of many opportunities. Choose to embrace all of them in deepest gratitude. Learn to forgive yourself and honour the heart that beats within you, as well as the head that rests on your shoulders. Learn how to believe in people again and not be judging or cynical to various beliefs. We are all of one light on this one Earth, and loving humanity makes all the difference.”
“Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jayne Anne Phillips from Jun 20, 2011
“If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?”

Source : "Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press". Book by Alexander Cockburn, p. 184, 1998.
“Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.”
“The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow.”
“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”

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