"What will happen to us?" I asked. "There will always be us," he answered."

-- Patti Smith

“I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.”
“It's often the case that when a critic uses an embarrassingly accurate term to describe what a wrong-doer is doing, the wrong-doer protests: "Why don't you use my white-washed, conscience-soothing euphemism?" Such euphemisms, they claim, help promote "civilized debate."”
“What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?”
“The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth...”
“My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.”
“Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.”
“The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.”
“I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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