"I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party."

“Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."”

Source : Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

“Dyslexia is a neurological issue, not a character flaw.”

Source : " 20 Must-See Docs Making Their TV Premieres This October" by Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. October 2, 2012.

“I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.”

“One UK paper described me as a "miserablist", a word I'd never heard before or since. I looked it up and it means someone who can only be happy when they are miserable. Perfect.”

“Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has made this world, I should not wish to be that God. The world's wretchedness would rend my heart.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.68, Booklassic

“You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)”

“The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?”

“I went to the dentist. He said "Say Aaah." I said "Why?" He said "My dog's died."”