"Music has no limits of a life-span."

-- Nadine Gordimer

“Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If youâ€™re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.”
“Pop stars exist in a different space, one not necessarily tied to a patriotism. So Rihanna is everyone's. She doesn't just belong to America, even though she's a creation of America.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed that they meant nothing by it. At this late hour in my life I have learned what they meant. They meant that love transcends death. They are correct.”

Source : Gene Wolfe (2009). “The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction”, p.338, Macmillan
“My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons.”

Source : FaceBook post by Miguel Angel Torres from Oct 12, 2010
“The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has.”
“The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.”
“The best time of day for sex is anytime because it's sex.”
“There was actually some serious time in front of the mirror, checking yourself out, checking out your shirt, checking out your pants.Combing that hair. Really putting some thought and effort behind it and it's astounding how terrible I used to make myself look. Still to this day I don't really know how to dress myself.”

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