"Let me in, immigration man, can I cross the line and pray, I can stay another day? Won't you let me in, immigration man? I won't toe your line today, I can't see it anyway."

“Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.”

“Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.”

Source : Henry Drummond (2013). “Addresses”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

“Live life messy and love every moment of it.”

“I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.”

“I like to set myself a new adventure challenge at least once or twice a year because I love that side of my life. I love getting fit and training for it.”

“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”

Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.387, Penguin

“Retreating from the world will not liberate you. Happiness is not found in a secluded forest hut or isolated cave. Enlightenment comes when you connect to the world. Only when you truly connect with everyone and everything else do you become Enlightened. Only by going deeply and fully into the world do you attain liberation.”

Source : Guo Jun (2013). “Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character and Spirit of Chinese Zen”, p.13, Monkfish Book Publishing

“It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat.”