"It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears."

“Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.”

Source : "Claire Messud and Robin Desser". Interview with Robin Desser, www.slate.com. May 3, 2013.

“A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.”

Source : Julius Charles HARE (Archdeacon of Lewes. and HARE (Augustus William)), Augustus William HARE (1847). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series”, p.255

“You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.”

“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.”

“I really want to work on a record of mine and I'm just getting inspiration from different sources like one of my favourite bands, Led Zeppelin, and Radiohead.”

“There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.”

“Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.”

“I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.”