I'm always interested in debunking myths if they are untrue. But it's also important to identify myths and how they function, what value they may have.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

Who invented political tolerance? The English invented it, it's something which has taken roots with some difficulty in Scottish politics.

I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.

Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.

I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.

On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski

I like what Proenza Schouler is doing. I also love the Miu Miu chunky embellished shoes and really like Prada as well.

Everyone seems to want to be somewhere they aren't. Choose to be where you are right now and you will be happier than 90 percent of humankind.

My goal is to destroy Christianity.

History started badly and has been getting steadily worse.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him.

A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.

My life is littered with bad decisions.