"The dreadful burden of having nothing to do."

-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.”
“Each murder is one too many.”

Source : "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, September 1, 2004.
“Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly.”
“To me, the idea of a weatherman is really powerful. There's a guy on television or on the radio telling us the future, and nobody cares. It's this daily mundane miracle, and I think the songs I chose are about noticing the beauty in normal, everyday life.”
“There's something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and moves. Then there is everything he ingested - the cigar smoking and drinking that's imprinted on his voice.”
“At the beginning of my career, a more senior photographer told me to shoot stories on women and I didn't want to. But I spent two and a half years in India and chose to do stories about women because I was shocked by their treatment. My stories in the Middle East and on the border of Europe and Asia were a response to my time in India. They weren't driven by a feminist idea but when you're moved by women's issues in these countries you can't help becoming a feminist somehow.”
“I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”

Source : John Buchan (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Buchan (Illustrated)”, p.1173, Delphi Classics
“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.”

Source : George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.442, 谷月社

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