"No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doomed never to appear in reality."

“The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.”

Source : Jeremy Paxman (2001). “The English: A Portrait of a People”, p.128, The Overlook Press

“The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.”

“Time ... brings us everything we have and are, then comes with a back-loader and starts taking it all away.”

“I love being chubby because chicks that smoke pot love me. They think I have food at my house.”

“All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.”

“Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.”

“I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, you will eventually become it.”

“Universities hire professors the way some men choose wives - they want the ones the others will admire.”