"If you enjoy reading something, read it."

“I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.”

“You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that poin was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret of not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving.It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched.”

“With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?”

“No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.”

Source : "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.

“I never had much education in English poetry as such,”

“He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.”

“The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.”

Source : desmond morris (1967). “tha naked ape”

“All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.”

Source : John Banville (2011). “Shroud”, p.12, Pan Macmillan