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“Whenever I work on the computer, I have folders and you know how you always give everything working titles, if you have a riff or a motif or a chord progression or a lyric written on a page, it's just a line or a word or something so I always give everything a working title when I'm making a folder.”
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“For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.”
Source : Mervyn Peake (2007). “Gormenghast”, p.72, The Overlook Press
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“Rin slept inside the oak’s thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness reflected back herself.”
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“Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings, washed, combed, and in their Sunday best.... [They] are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality... They simply look out of place in black clothes and stiff collar, since clearly they belong in skins, in wattled huts at the close of the Great Ice Age. These ox-like men are descendants of those who always stayed behind.”
Source : "The Old World in the New". Book by Edward Alsworth Ross, edition.cnn.com. 1914. 
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“If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.”
Source : John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.53, John Ruskin
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“With Yeltsin, the Soviet Union broke apart, the country was totally mismanaged, the constitution was not respected by the regions of Russia. The army, education and health systems collapsed. People in the West quietly applauded, dancing with and around Yeltsin. I conclude therefore that we should not pay too much attention to what the West is saying.”
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“Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.”
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“When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.”
