"The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group."

“I dance because I have to, because I'm so passionate about it.”

“Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.”

“The three most written-about subjects of all time are Jesus, the Civil War, and the Titanic.”

Source : Daniel Mendelsohn (2012). “Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture”, p.82, New York Review of Books

“If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall find in conservation farming an avenue to the greatest food production the world has ever known - not only for the war, but for the peace that is to follow.”

“It's the things one might have said that fester.”

Source : "A Bill of Divorcement: A Play".

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.”

“Men are every bit as gendered as women.”

Source : "Fathers, Sons and Guns : An Interview With USC Sociologist and Author Michael Messner". Interview with Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2011.

“Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.”