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“Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.”
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“I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.”
Source : "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012. 
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“A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death”
Source : Tiffany Baker (2009). “The Little Giant of Aberdeen County”, p.162, Hachette UK
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“Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison.”
Source : Curzio Malaparte (2007). “Woman Like Me”, p.7, Troubador Publishing Ltd
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“I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.”
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“Being excited about stuff on a daily basis, I'm so excited by it.”
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“Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if – really – they’ve just talked themselves into it. They want it so badly, they kind of make it happen. They fake it until they start believing their own story. Maybe that’s just sour grapes or something. Maybe because it doesn’t happen to me, I don’t want to think it happens to anyone else.”
