"By exposing the fallacy of the UK’s extradition arrangements with the US, I leave with my head held high having won the moral victory."

“Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose.”

Source : Günter Brus, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1980). “Günter Brus, Bild-Dichtungen: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 4 June-13 July 1980 ...”, Trustees of Whitechapel Art Gallery

“While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States.”

“Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.”

“There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.”

“When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.”

“There are always more choices than you think.”

“It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

“Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.”