"Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking."

“I think musicians should stay off television generally.”

“What we want is never simple. We move among the things we thought we wanted: a face, a room, an open book and these things bear our names - now they want us. But what we want appears in dreams, wearing disguises. We fall past, holding out our arms and in the morning our arms ache. We don't remember the dream, but the dream remembers us. It is there all day as an animal is there under the table, as the stars are there.”

“The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.”

Source : "An Interview with James C. Scott | Harry G. West and Celia Plender". Gastronomica Interview, gastronomica.org. March 14, 2017.

“Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.”

“Between them, my parents had 10 marriages.”

“Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.”

Source : Ernest J. Gaines (2012). “Bloodline: Five Stories”, p.95, Vintage

“It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.”

Source : Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

“Prescription drugs and ***** act in very similar ways on the brain. And, unfortunately, heroin, because of its widespread availability is a lot cheaper.”