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“When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."”
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“The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.”
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“Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”
Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013. 
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“You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.”
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“Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.”
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“In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.”
Source : Abraham Kaplan (2017). “The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioural Science”, p.56, Routledge
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“I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.”
Source : "A galaxy faraway, so close: Adam Driver on 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. August 15, 2014.
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“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”
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“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”
