I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.

The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.

Never test another man by your own weakness.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

It was a dark story.

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

You lose a couple of pounds and get a guy good and drunk, you could have a hell of a good time even if you are not smart.

I will keep my bulk. All of it, if ye dinna mind. I will have need of it, thank ye." Derrick

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

Many say our world is at a tipping point. If we do not act together, if we do not act responsibly, if we do not act now, we risk slipping into a cycle of poverty, degradation, and despair.

Who doesn't love a little Taylor Swift in their life? You know you need a little Taylor Swift in your life.

The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.

We must obviously be much more clever in using resources, regulate with tax and promote innovations.

I still dont consider myself a fashion girl.

I'm gonna put all my money into taxes. They're sure to go up.

I much prefer the road. My thing is getting live in front of people. There is a sterile environment to a studio that doesnt make me let go.