"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."

“When legal aid was first introduced in 1949, the late Arthur Skeffington said that the law at that time was like The Ritz, in that those who could afford to pay had access to it, while those who could not did not.”

“I'm pretty sure my audience could be bigger, if I could get it out a lot more different places, but that's what we're working towards right now today. It ain't like I'm at the end of our career or nothing like that, I just now getting started. I been in the game for a long time but I'm just now getting heard by people everywhere else. And they still seem to like it, so it didn't give me nothing but fuel, and motivation to keep it pushing.”

“We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely”

“The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.”

“The lesser of two evils is still evil.”

“I love to be sore and when I feel sore I train even harder.”

“One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.”

Source : Mel Odom (2005). “Lord of the Libraries”, p.301, Macmillan

“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”