"God will understand, my lord. And if he doesn't, then he is not God and we need not worry."

“Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.”

Source : Derek Parfit, Samuel Scheffler (2013). “On What Matters: Volume One”, p.40, Oxford University Press

“Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?”

Source : Edward Robert Harrison (1987). “Darkness at night: a riddle of the universe”, Harvard Univ Pr

“I think we need to reckon in a very serious way with the emotional content of news and the way that people perceive facts and their perception of their situation and to me I think the tabloid is like fundamentally an emotional form of journalism and that kind of emotional valence is what distinguishes it from the broad sheet.”

“Birds are, perhaps, the most eloquent expression of reality.”

“True creative cities produce the legacy of an idea that does what funding cannot do: to foster..”

“Okay, this is Fran Lebowitz. She gave an interview once for the Paris Review about trying to write fiction and saying that fiction writers start talking about how characters are talking to them, and it's crazy, she's never had that. And I also thought, I'm never gonna be able to do this, because I didn't feel that for a really long time.”

“I'm not fighting with myself.”

“You have to have the right mind-set.”