"Don't let your mind see through your eyes."

“I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.”

“If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.”

Source : "Wanda Sykes, Is 'Sick & Tired'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. October 13, 2006.

“Let's have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves. "Now thyself" is more important than "know thyself." Reason is what tells us to ignore the present and live in the future. So all we do is make plans. We think that somewhere there are going to be green pastures. It's crazy. Heaven is nothing but a grand, monumental instance of future. Listen, now is good. Now is wonderful.”

“That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.”

“I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.”

“I give so much of myself on Sunday. I drain all the life out of myself out there. I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life is.”

“From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.”

Source : Sebastian Faulks (2010). “Girl At The Lion d'Or”, p.83, Random House

“It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”