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“Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.”
Source : Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Total Chaos”, p.28, Penguin
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“Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.”
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“It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.”
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“What one does easily, one does well.”
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“Everybody's a teacher if you listen.”
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“The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.”
Source : Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003. 
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“If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?”
Source : Dan Poynter (2003). “The self-publishing manual: how to write, print, and sell your own book”, Para Publishing
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“Exercise is your king, and nutrition is your queen. Together they create your fitness kingdom.”
