"Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art."

“Great self esteem comes from inside and feels hot and wonderful.”

“Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.”

“What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together; and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.”

Source : Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare, Edward Hayes Plumptre (1871). “Guesses at Truth”, p.210

“Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed...”

“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.”

Source : Brian Selznick (2015). “Wonderstruck”, p.221, Scholastic

“If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.”

“Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.”

Source : Josef Škvorecký (1985). “The Engineer of Human Souls”, Pocket Books

“My father was dead by the time I became a writer, and he would have had a heart attack if he had read the first thing I wrote when it came out. My mother still keeps her copy of Faggots hidden away in a bottom drawer.”