"To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."

“It is normal for me to wake and find myself writing in the dark... or to be out of my tomb, caught in an unearthly world, alive with the images that haunt me.”

“Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.”

Source : "What I know about women". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2009.

“Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.”

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”

Source : John Boyne (2009). “Mutiny On The Bounty”, p.162, Random House

“The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.”

Source : Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

“Right now I'm just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.”

“If anyone doubts the influence of drug company ads on patients and physicians - consider all those wasted billions of dollars for a pill that sells for more than six times as much as another drug that does the same thing, made by the same company.”

Source : "The costly side effects of Nexium's ad blitz". www.nbcnews.com. August 14, 2007.

“The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.”