"I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I don't mind."

“I love to walk in the forest and take my bike. I love to watch the little birdies. I'm a green person.”

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”

“I know you followed me. Don't look so surprised. It's called a rearview mirror.”

“I really had wanted to learn Italian for a long time. I think ever since - or even maybe even before I had read Dante. And I just sort of had this idea that I wanted to read Dante in Italian. And then in my office, we actually had a class - an Italian class.”

Source : "Translator Behind Elena Ferrante Novels Says Her Job Is To Be An 'Enabler'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 20, 2016.

“We hope for the future, then we reach for the past.”

Source : Song: Love Is The Only Light, Album: Scream If You Wanna Go Faster

“I don't see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.”

“If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.”

Source : FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 04, 2013

“In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.”