"I know my flaws before other people point them out to me."

“I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.”

“Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.

“Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.”

“I just don't like to drive. I'm not a bad driver, I just don't like to drive.”

“Washington is a mean town where human sacrifice has been raised to an art form.”

“To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.”

Source : Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.192, Faber & Faber

“People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better... They don't know it, but they're losing nature. They don't see that they're going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.”

“It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.”

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