"The only real security is in having lots of opportunity. But risk is the price to pay for opportunity. And risk is scary."

“Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.”

“It may be an infinitely less evil to murder a man than to refuse to forgive him. The former may be the act of a moment of passion: the latter is the heart’s choice.”

“It's the combination of marrying a beautiful woman three decades younger and my iPad that keeps me young.”

“You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine.”

Source : Justin Halpern (2010). “Sh*t My Dad Says”, p.14, Harper Collins

“I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.”

Source : "NYFW: At the Burberry Acoustic Party, Tom Odell Swears He's Not Taylor Swift". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 10, 2013.

“This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway, oh no, this is the road to hell.”

Source : Song: Road To Hell part 1 and 2, 1989

“The soul of all is one soul and the truth is one truth, under whatever religion it is hidden.”

“The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it; records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.”