Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Robertson Davies

Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

John Updike, Piet Hanema, in Cou

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

Calvin Klein

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

Bruce Schneier

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Stephen Hawking

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

Source Unknown

Luck is infatuated with the efficient.

Proverb

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

Imelda Marcos

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

Diane Abbott

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.

Humphrey Bogart

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe

Thomas Carlyle