"But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people."

“Please, please. Don't cry like that. I'm going to go mad. I don't want to see you again. I need to see you again... I'm sick of it. Because as soon as we have to say goodbye... I want to die. (Ritsuka)”

“From living in my own little secluded hell in this world, oblivious to the world around me, I found sanctuary with the bears, where I had made peace with myself of the consequences I have allowed while living in society.”

Source : "Steve Irwin - Interview With Timothy Treadwell - the Grizzly Man". Interview with Steve Irwin, desteni.org. June 1, 2007.

“Like Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, and so many others before me, sexual imagery has always been a part of my photography.”

Source : "Correcting the Rumors" by Terry Richardson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2014.

“[News is] a first rough draft of history.”

“I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich”

“I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.”

“Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.741, Northwestern University Press

“I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?”