"I've made a poster at home. You know the iconic image of Che Guevara, the black and red graphic of his face? I think it's the perfect graphic, the best graphic ever made. I cut a Concorde out and put it over his head so it's Che looking up and the Concorde going by. Both are dead, maybe obsolete."

“No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.”

“Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.”

“It's not often that you see a smile on the face of the Viper, but it actually looks good on there.”

“...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.”

Source : Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

“No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.”

“The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.”

“If you tell yourself there is a path you need to travel, that it will take time to get where you want to go-that there is a distance between you and the fully realized state-then the path can become a way of holding liberation at arm's length.”

Source : Jan Frazier, Barbi Schulick (2007). “When Fear Falls Away: The Story of a Sudden Awakening”, p.190, Weiser Books

“We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die”