"Nothing bears out in practice what it promises incipiently."

“People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.”

“Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.”

“I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.”

“You create identity, you're not given identity per se. What became more and more interesting to me wasn't the I, it was text because it's text that create identity. That's how I got interested in plagiarism.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1991). “Hannibal Lecter, my father”, Semiotext

“I keep people around me that have the freedom to challenge my heart and motive.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com

“Suppose I grant that pigs and dogs are self-aware to some degree, and do have thoughts about things in the future. That would provide some reason for thinking it intrinsically wrong to kill them - not absolutely wrong, but perhaps quite a serious wrong. Still, there are other animals - chickens maybe, or fish - who can feel pain but don't have any self-awareness or capacity for thinking about the future. For those animals, you haven't given me any reason why painless killing would be wrong, if other animals take their place and lead an equally good life.”

“Quentin had an obsolete sailing ship that had been raised from the dead. He had psychotically effective swordsman and an enigmatic witch-queen. It wasn't the Fellowship of the Ring, but then again he wasn't trying to save the world from Sauron, he was trying to perform a tax audit on a bunch of hick islanders…”

Source : Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.353, Penguin

“I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.”

Source : Barbara Cartland (1943). “The Isthmus Years”