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“The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves.”
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“The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.”
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“If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.”
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“The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are necessary in reporting the mass data of social and economic trends, business conditions, 'opinion' polls, the census. But without writers who use the words with honesty and understanding and readers who know what they mean, the result can only be semantic nonsense.”
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“Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.”
Source : John Ajvide Lindqvist (2010). “Let Me In”, p.271, Macmillan
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“What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!”
Source : Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.174, The Overlook Press
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“It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.”
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“You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.”
Source : "33 Inspiring Graduation Speeches From Your Fave Celebs". Seventeen magazine, Slide 25, www.seventeen.com. May 11, 2018. 
