"Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?"

“I hate the idea that you shouldn't wear something just because you're a certain age.”

“Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising.”

“Evolution is not the enemy of ethics but its first source.”

Source : Stuart A. Kauffman (2010). “Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion”, p.260, Basic Books

“If youre alive and breathing, you can still become everything God has created you to be.”

“My fiction may, now and again, illuminate aspects of the human condition, but I do not consciously set out to do so: I am a storyteller.”

Source : "William Trevor: the keen-eyed chronicler" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

“And every breath I ever took, every tear I ever wept, every star I wished upon seemed nothing until now. Every prayer I ever said seemed strangely answered now. Could it be I'm in love? Could it be I'm in love?”

Source : Song: It Looks Like Rain, Album: Living Under June, 1994

“An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes.”

“Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are certain lies which may constitute a far better and more secure foundation of happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.”

Source : "Autobiography of Wilhelm Stekel: The Life Story of a Pioneer Psychoanalyst". Book by Wilhelm Stekel, edited by Emil Arthur Gutheil, p. 206, 1950.