"One of the main challenges, for me, has been to keep simplicity in its place. It’s only a tool. It’s not the destination, it’s the vehicle that gets us there"

“And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the way, I must have messed up in raising you." "You didn't mess up...." "I must have. Because when I look at you, I see myself, and to be honest, I'd rather see someone different. I'd like to see someone who learned that it's okay to go on, that it's okay to find someone that can make you happy. But right now, it's like I'm looking in the mirror and seeing myself twenty years ago.”

“Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.”

“Stories are the reproductive organs of language.”

Source : Robert Bringhurst (2004). “Prosodies of Meaning: Literary Form in Native North America”, University of Manitoba Press

“I may not be loud but that doesn't mean I'm not strong within myself. My mum and dad instilled in me to stand up for what I believe in - and I do.”

“It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.”

Source : John Desmond Bernal (1967). “The origin of life”

“The downfall of the industry is that there is a lot of pressure in it, a lot of rejection in it and a lot of competition in it. It's a whole mess.”

“The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.”

“If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.”