"Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons."

“Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice...”

“The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.”

“I don't want the national award... I seriously do not need any such thing. I would only want the audience to go and watch the film once and that will be more than enough for me. Once everybody should see the movie and say it is a good watch.”

“So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.”

“Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.”

Source : "Gawker unveils new comments system and Nick Denton immediately uses it to pick fight with BuzzFeed" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2012.

“Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners.”

Source : Interview with Warner Troyer in Toronto for the Ontario Educational Communications Authority, March 1977.

“Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.32, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

“Donald Trump is the Honey Boo Boo of rich people.”