"She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for."

“I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.”

“I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do.”

“Knowledge is only potential power.”

“What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?”

Source : Giordano Bruno (2013). “Heroic Enthusiasts”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

“I wouldn't want to go out six nights a week and watch somebody's reserves playing to check out a footballer to see if we're going to buy him.”

Source : "Gary Lineker: 'After football, you have to make yourself interesting'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2011.

“A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.”

“I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.”

“If we can live and prosper without killing, why would we not do so? I do not see veganism as 'extreme' in any way. I see killing for no reason as extreme in every way.”