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“God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.”
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“Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.”
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“The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.”
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“If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is a flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste! (p. 225)”
Source : "Call me by your name". Book by André Aciman, January 23, 2007.
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“Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you never know all the side effects. I look at the pharmaceutical companies as the drug barons, the psychopharmcologists as the mules and the patients as the victims. They're innocent because they think they're being cured.”
Source : "Robert Evans: 'Any man who says he can read a woman's thoughts is a man who knows nothing'". Interview With Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002. 
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“I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.”
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“Don't chase the paper, chase the dream,”
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“With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.”
