"It is better for the heart to break, than not to break."

“The Iraq war took priority over domestic disaster prevention.”

“If there is one thing in mathematics that fascinates me more than anything else (and doubtless always has), it is neither "number" nor "size", but always form. And among the thousand-and-one faces whereby form chooses to reveal itself to us, the one that fascinates me more than any other and continues to fascinate me, is the structure hidden in mathematical things.”

Source : "Alexander Grothendieck, Math Enigma, Dies at 86" by Bruce Weber and Julie Rehmeyer, www.nytimes.com. November 14, 2014.

“I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.”

“We reach our best, and we do our best, we are at our best in a love atmosphere.”

“There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.”

“Life without literature is a life reduced to penury. It expands you in every way. It illuminates what you’re doing. It shows you possibilities you haven’t thought of. It enables you to live the lives of other people than yourself. It broadens you, it makes you more human. It makes life enjoyable.”

“Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.”

Source : "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

“I am here and I am safe and I am sick of it.”

Source : Shelagh Delaney (1963). “Sweetly Sings the Donkey”