"All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons."

-- Alan Coren

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“I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat?”
“Theres a thousand other things I would rather spend money on than a car.”
“It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.”
“TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.”
“The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. Itâ€™s perceived as an accolade to be published as a â€˜literaryâ€™ writer, but, actually, itâ€™s pompous and itâ€™s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. Iâ€™d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.”

Source : "Neil Cross: 'I don't get on with novelists'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.
“I'm the number 1 target of the White House. They can't get Osama bin Laden; they're going to get me.”
“Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine.”
“Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" the boy asked. "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you will find your treasure.”

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