"Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise."

“The explorer is the person who is lost.”

Source : Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

“But look what happens when the government gives you rights. When the government gives you rights, unlike when God gives you rights, the government can take them away. When government gives you rights, the government can tell you how to exercise those rights.”

“All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.”

“Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.”

Source : "Chef Jose Garces Follows His 'Latin Road Home'". "Talk Of The Nation" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. October 4, 2012.

“Was it possible in any relationship to not disappoint, to do anything more than only briefly rekindle the initial fatal illusion?”

Source : Lily King (2007). “The English Teacher”, p.105, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either.”

“Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.”

Source : Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding (2006). “The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”

“I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.”