"However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us."

-- Eric Hoffer

“For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls.”

Source : 'Jubilate Agno' Fragment B, l. 30
“On his method for lighting up: "Nothing special, but I do blunts, cigarellos, pipes, bongs, bowls, I'll smoke out of an old Timberland boot if you can rig it up and get some weed some out of it. I'll smoke that. Man, I've been saying that for years, so I might just try to make me a Timberland boot contraption that you can smoke weed out of. I think I'm gonna try it."”
“The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.”
“Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.”

Source : Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.137, Simon and Schuster
“When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader”
“Others don't make us angry. There is no force involved. Becoming angry is a conscious choice, a decision, therefore, we can make the choice not to become angry. We choose!”
“To rage and mock is gentlemanly, to grumble and whine is not.”
“Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.”

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