"It's the cynics who never get married."

“I've heard the sound of 70 condoms being scraped over the floor at the British Museum. It feels like being an adventurer. Why would you stay in your living room if you could go out and experience things no one's ever experienced?”

Source : Interview with Nitsuh Abebe, pitchfork.com. November 10, 2008.

“When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.”

“His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.”

“For the Lord hath in no place forbidden mirth...”

Source : Heinrich Bullinger, Harding (1850). “The Decades of H. Bullinger ..”, p.55

“Language is the house of the truth of Being.”

“We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women's hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them.”

“I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.”

Source : "‘Hello I Must Be Going’ Star Melanie Lynskey On Her Bout With Depression After ‘Heavenly Creatures’ and Proving Naysayers Wrong" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. September 05, 2012.

“Good words are worth much, and cost little.”