"St John, on Christ's bosom, pray for me in the days of my discipleship, in the house of my faith, in the hour of my death."

“The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.”

Source : "Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Caribbean Poet, Dies at 87". The Paris Review Interview, www.latimes.com. March 17, 2017.

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.”

“God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.”

“Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.”

“If I win, I'm a prodigy. If I lose, then I'm crazy. That's the way history is written.”

Source : Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl”, Miramax

“Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.”

“I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at the center of gravity of the world around them.”

“You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied.”