"I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy."

“Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.”

“If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.”

“History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?”

“I don't cook. I respect food too much.”

Source : "Eva Mendes On Guilty Pleasures, Compliments And The Best Reason To Stay Up Late" by Katie Arnold-Ratliff, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2013.

“Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.15, Vintage

“The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external.”

“You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.”

“One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.”