"The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity."

“Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.”

“I find it more comfortable to say I'm an atheist, and for that I probably have someone like Dawkins to thank.”

“I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'”

“Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.”

Source : Robert Burton (1924). “The Anatomy of Melancholy ... in Three Partitions with Their Several Sections, Members & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally & Subsections, Philosopically, Medicinally, Historically Opened & Cut Up by Democritus Junior (Robert Burton) with a Satirical Pref. Conducing to the Following Discourse”

“People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.”

“Know how to win by following the rules”

“I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.”

“Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyones got a free range for you.”

Source : "Jason Statham: 'Me in a cape? Tight tights? Nah!'". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2011.