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“One Child's courage to survive”
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“I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.”
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“Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.”
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“All serious art is being destroyed by commerce. Most people don't want art to be disturbing. They want it to be escapist. I don't think art should be escapist. That's a waste of time.”
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“Football became my life at five or six. The earliest memory I have is of playing in my first boots, a pair of black and white Alan Balls. It was 1970, four years after the World Cup, and I scored three goals at school.”
Source : "Vinnie Jones: 'It took me 40 years to see a psychologist'"y Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013. 
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“To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.”
Source : "How to be radical?". The OpenDemocracy Interview, www.opendemocracy.net. April 5, 2011.
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“There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.”
Source : John Marsden (1998). “Checkers”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“But simply someone who broke the law, came here, say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen.”
Source : "Meet The Virginian Shaping The House GOP's Immigration Plan". "Morning Edition" with David Welna, www.wfdd.org. February 21, 2013.
