"You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it."

“Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?”

Source : Robert Harris (1998). “Archangel: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

“Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.”

“The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.”

“Other than that and the fact that I don't have to work any more my life hasn't changed a bit.”

“I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.”

“While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past.”

Source : Jack Vance (2007). “The Jack Vance Treasury”, Subterranean

“Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.”

“True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.”

Source : A. H. Almaas (2011). “Diamond Heart: Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery”, p.224, Shambhala Publications