"They say it's the number of people I killed, I say it's the principle."

“LEGO is universal. So many people enjoy it, from all different walks of life, all different ages, all different cultures. When I was in Africa, I had LEGO bricks with me and I met some people who had never heard of LEGO, they had never seen it before and yet as soon as I gave them a few bricks, they immediately got it.”

“Take my hand and we'll make it - I swear”

“Your side of the boat is sinking!”

“Sometimes the people who mean you harm, are the ones that say they love you.”

“Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.”

“During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.”

“I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.”

“For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.”

Source : Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber