"There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something."

“Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'”

“Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than your right to know how your food is produced. But beneath the surface, a revolution is growing.”

“I think the most important is when I was young, I learnt martial arts; that is my special key.”

“At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.”

“Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.”

“The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.”

Source : "Ethan Hawke, Selena Gomez and Director Courtney Solomon Talk GETAWAY, Surviving the Stunts, Filming in Bulgaria, Horror in Action and Casting the Voice". Interview, collider.com. August 31, 2013.

“Since 2005, a majority of Americans, according to the Gallup poll, have said it was wrong and a mistake to go into Iraq.”

“Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.”

Source : "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.