"Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold."

“Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1970). “The Theory of Political Economy”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

“Just the way you might look at a painting and see the painting, and the painting is outside you, so this immaterial intellect would see the forms and behold them, as if they were standing before it. And Plotinus said that that can't be right because it falls prey to sceptical objections.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

“Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.”

“Jarecki's 'Reagan' is a compellingly watchable and appropriately conflicted portrait...artfully nuanced and intellectually curious.”

“We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.”

“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”

Source : Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.37, Pantheon

“For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.”