"I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will."

“If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2008). “Previous Convictions: Assignments from Here and There”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

“It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

“I'm opinionated, but I'm not a vindictive person and I never say anything unprovoked, either.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.”

“Through your ability to think and feel, you have dominion over all creation.”

“Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.”

“In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness.”

“Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.”