"Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain."

“There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.”

“As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.”

Source : Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

“The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.”

Source : Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.55, Penguin

“My wife would probably say I'm the messiest person in the history of husbands.”

“Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that gathers a luminous energy as it moves inexorably forward. In this book she makes a strong case that art, for immigrants from countries where human rights and even survival are often in jeopardy, must be a vocation to witness if it is not to be an idle luxury.”

“I kind of look at what's on the T-shirts and I see another solution, which also worries me. I see "Just do it." "No fear." - this kind of suppressive response to the treacle that the culture tries to define for us as a meaningful life also blows up on you. "No fear" is not something that you should put on your shirt. How about "I can hold my fear and still connect with you"? Put that on your shirt. "It's okay to be me, with all of my history." Put that on your shirt.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com

“In every soap, at the end of the season, relationships end and people leave the show. You look at characters and evaluate whether they're great characters or not, and whether they have a future in the show. And we did all of that.”

“Manchester United is still in my heart. Disappointed they didn't win the title but they are still the kings of Premier League.”