"Nothing like quoting Silence of the Lambs for people to question what kind of disability you have."

“The federal government has been a proven failure in picking winners and losers in the energy sector.”

“When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like, 'What do I do ... I don't really ... ha-huh ...' Yeah, it's the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!”

“When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.”

“What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.”

Source : "Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2012.

“If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.”

“If we build three million new houses by 2020, where will we grow all the stuff needed to feed the people who live in them?”

“Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.”

“No question is more sublime than why there is a Universe: why there is anything rather than nothing”

Source : Derek Parfit (2013). “On What Matters: Volume Two”, p.624, Oxford University Press