"In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old."

“I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.”

“There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.”

“A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.”

Source : Rafael Sabatini (2015). “Captain Blood: Story Pirates”, p.59, 谷月社

“In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.”

“It is not fools that I seek to address.”

“Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”

Source : John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.62, Vintage

“Balanced is probably what I am, although that's just a polite way to say that you don't do anything very well.”

Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

“Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.”