"Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty."

“See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.”

Source : 1612 The White Devil, act 2, sc.1.

“I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.”

Source : "The Infectious Benjamin Percy". Interview with Jennifer Sky, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 6, 2013.

“No more "band psycho" stuff for me. I'm fine without it.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

“When you join the Parachute Regiment they send you on training and initiation exercises. One of the tasks is to accept and care for a pet white rabbit. The young squaddie has to feed, brush, stroke and comfort his rabbit for a week, and become attached to it. Then he has to shoot it.”

“If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

“When you notice that politicians and the media are after you, it makes you all the more determined to find out the truth.”

“It is only by means of purity of mind can you come close to the Lord.”

“In flight...entire days can be wound back or skipped over...as we exist merely in a world of vapor. Adventures are both beginning and coming to a close up here as people from opposite ends of experience paradoxically move in one direction.”