"The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell."

“To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.”

Source : BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

“Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.”

“I have to thank the guy who fired me because he was also the guy who hired me.”

“Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.”

“The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue.”

Source : "Time". Book by Briton Hadden, p. 29, 1923.

“When everything flows into place ? washes dry tonally correct, crisp and sparkling, the light scheme is sound and the "accidentals" are all happy ones ? I'm temporarily in a euphoric state.”

“I’m just confusing the thrill of being young with the notion that the era in which I was young was in any way especially creative or remarkable.”

Source : Stewart Lee (2010). “How I Escaped My Certain Fate”, p.8, Faber & Faber

“My friend Michael Reagan has given us the blueprint for a new Reagan revolution- and he has given Ronald Reagan back to us again. Read it, learn it, live it, love it!”