"It costs a lot to be authentic. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being."

“What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.”

“Nobody feels anybody else's pains because they're not their.”

“Melody is a form of remembrance. It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears.”

“This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball.”

Source : "Rickey Henderson A Steal for the Mets" by Tim Marchman, www.nysun.com. July 13, 2007.

“Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.”

“Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.”

“Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.”

Source : "Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a London tradition for centuries'". The Monday Interview with Andy McSmith, www.independent.co.uk. August 21, 2011.

“The real history does not get written, because it is not in people's brains but in their nerves and vitals.”