"I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself."

-- Mark Ruffalo

“The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.”

Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
“There are two types of pain, the one that breaks you and the one that changes you. In the gym, pain is felt as a result of weakness leaving the body. Physical pain is the glue of transformation and the pain of progress. The more you endure the harder it gets to accept the thought of failure.”

Source : FaceBook post by Greg Plitt from Oct 23, 2014
“Chance is the providence of adventurers.”
“A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]”
“The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.”
“Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'”

Source : Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster
“To overcome this obstacle, and to discover and dismantle Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, UNMOVIC and the IAEA must interview relevant persons securely and with their families protected, even if they protest publicly against this treatment. Hans Blix may dislike running ''a defection agency,' but that could be the only way to obtain truthful information about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction”
“I used to read the myths of love Now I have become the mythical lover”

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