"One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on."

“We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.”

“My daughter took Latin for three years; she still cant speak it.”

“Family is fun, way more fun than music.”

“Literacy, written language is a very late acquisition in terms of human evolution.”

Source : "Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 3, 2011.

“Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.”

Source : 1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'The Description of Cooke-ham'.

“Maybe Pope Francis will say something on his visit to the US, maybe he'll rebuke Donald Trump and anti-immigrant racism and demagoguery beautifully, in a way that illuminates hearts and makes people begin to turn away. That would be miracle enough for me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!”

Source : Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.96, Macmillan

“After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important.”