"If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing."

-- Nile Rodgers

“Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2016). “Love in a Blue Time”, p.122, Faber & Faber
“And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.”
“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
“Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.”
“You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.”
“They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.”
“The comfort and sweetness of peace.”
“I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.”

Source : Playboy interview, October, 1967.

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