"Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots."

“I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.”

Source : "Talking with "Jackie Joyner-Kersee," from The Neighbors". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. November 30, 2012.

“Water will be more important than oil this century”

“People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized and read poetry; it was one of the things you were forced to learn. Now it has tiny role in school.”

Source : "Campbell McGrath on Poetry, Walt Whitman and Schaefer Beer" by Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. March 01, 2008.

“The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, Your ego will get you killed.”

“In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.”

“Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.”

Source : Cameron Dokey (2009). “Beauty Sleep”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

“My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly.”

“You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment. It doesn't work that way. Give me a chance to choose you.”