"I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser."

“I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids birthday parties.”

“I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.25, Open Road Media

“Some of my inventions didn't take off. I invented a url lengthener.”

“Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“I even have some stories of people telling me how that song has changed their life, how it got them through hard times, how it saved their life when they were on the verge of thinking of doing the worst. That just really amazes me, that that movie [Romeo + Juliet] and that part in the movie are still having a huge effect on people's lives today.”

“The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant, we must think in limitless terms of abundance.”

“Twitter is a place where there is extreme vitriol at all times.”

“Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.”

Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”