"... As long as you continue to tar social democracy with all the crimes of communism, I feel equally entitled to tar the free market with the crimes of slavery, segregation, colonialism and genocide; piss me off and I'll add fascism and the Nazis."

“Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.”

“People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.”

“One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.”

“When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.”

“You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.”

Source : Charles Olson (1979). “Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews”

“I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.”

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

“At the moment I'm just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation but I think - and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn't humiliate players for too long”

Source : "No twinkle toes, no imagination as England dance to wrong tune" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

“Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless”

Source : Jonathan Culler (2014). “On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism”, p.99, Cornell University Press