"I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad."

“We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.”

“The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.”

Source : "The Year In Violence" by Michael Thomsen, www.ign.com. December 18, 2007.

“A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.”

“If you're going to write about something it becomes a damn sight more interesting than if you're not going to write about it, because you engage with it actively in a way that you wouldn't if you were just passing through or if you were going to St Helens to visit family or if it was a place that made you resentful because you'd always wanted to escape from there.”

“Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in the lobby of the Bernard Gursky Tower and, as he failed to rise on the third, he was duly buried.”

“I got into rock-and-roll because I wanted the chicks. The Dixie Chicks.”

“The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.”

Source : Genevieve Behrend (2013). “Your Invisible Power: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.10, Lulu Press, Inc

“Attitude produces character, and character produces hope.”