"Nothing in the world can replace the modern swimsuit, and it practically has."

“I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.”

“I don't remember the first stunt I ever did.”

“And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.”

Source : Matt Haig (2015). “Reasons to Stay Alive”, p.100, Canongate Books

“People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.”

“I have actually gotten to like fear ...”

Source : Pearl White (1919). “Just Me”

“The weird thing is, I used to skate in front of, like, 5,000 people and I was never nervous, but the first time I got on stage, there were four people there and I vomited.”

Source : "Like father, like son". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2005.

“The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”

Source : God and the Bible: A Review of Objections to Literature and Dogma (1875)

“No one's tried to stab me. That's cool. I enjoy not being stabbed.”