"It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent."

“Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.”

“Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.”

“In a hundred years, no one would know us, but this moment for us would last as long as we did.”

“Drinking is a way of ending the day.”

“When Mr. William Faraday sat down to write his memoirs after fifty-eight years of blameless inactivity he found the work of inscribing the history of his life almost as tedious as living it had been, and so, possessing a natural invention coupled with a gift for locating the easier path, he began to prevaricate a little upon the second page, working his way up to downright lying on the sixth and subsequent folios.”

Source : Margery Allingham (1959). “Crime and Mr. Campion”

“Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings, oblivious to what goes on around them. It is one of those things, I suppose, intelligence now and then does, must in fact now and then do, must think, must play, must imagine, must talk to itself. ... What, finally, intelligence could be for: finding your way back.”

Source : Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.86, UNM Press

“In the past, I was working out too heavy.”

“Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.”

Source : Paul Gauguin, Robert John Goldwater (1972). “Paul Gauguin”, Harry N Abrams Inc