"O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup today, Nor pity the flowers fallen."

“Have you ever hung a piece of black velvet behind you and looked at yourself in the mirror? We are each of us quite alone, and that's what I try to paint.”

“The addition of Beats will make our music lineup even better, from free streaming with iTunes Radio to a world-class subscription service in Beats, and of course buying music from the iTunes Store as customers have loved to do for years.”

Source : "Apple Confirms It's Buying Beats For $3 Billion" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. May 28, 2014.

“Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?”

“The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped me. It seemed to explain almost everything, and I applied it to everything.”

Source : Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1972). “Dominant Mammal: The Biology of Human Destiny”

“Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.”

Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1901). “Typical Modern Conceptions of God: Or, The Absolute of German Romantic Idealism and of English Evolutionary Agnosticism, with a Constructive Essay”

“Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.”

“When your tongue can taste shadows and your friends are shedding tears, That's when you know that hell is empty 'cos all the devils are here.”

“There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.”