"I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly."

“I'm very happy to have moved to West Ham, because I can play for a better team than Sheffield Wednesday.”

“My wants are simple: a job that I like and a guy whom I love.”

“Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”

“It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.”

“Socialism and capitalism are both essentially materialist, just different ways of approaching the lifeless world of matter and deciding how to share the spoils.”

Source : Iain McGilchrist (2009). “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”, p.401, Yale University Press

“In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary critics; it makes me suspect that they favour the word over the world it should describe. Such scribes fall victim too easily to the solecism of equating style with morality.”

“You have chosen the pathway to your present destination. The responsibility for your situation is yours.”

“Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility.”