I wrote ‘Sunshine Superman’ knowing she’d hear the lyrics [in LA] and realise I still loved her. I sang: ‘It’ll take time, I know it, but in a while / You’re gonna be mine, I know it / We’ll do it in style’. — Donovan, 2016 Guardian interview
To do well, you must figure out which arguments you must never try to win.— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.”–Heraclitus
When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, “To know one’s self.” And what was easy, “To advise another.”
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. George S. Patton
I found out that with 150 well-chosen books a man possesses a complete analysis of all human knowledge, or at least all that is either useful or desirable to be acquainted with. –Abbé Faria, The Count of Monte Cristo.
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives. John Galsworthy
When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
Tad’s mission in life is to have more fun than anyone else in New York City, and this involves a lot of moving around, since there is always the likelihood that where you aren’t is more fun than where you are. Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City