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“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”
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“Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.”
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“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
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“There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously It is the story you must take that way... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)”
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“Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.”
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“For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.”
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“Beautifully shot, impeccably paced, it was a clear, unrelenting look at the National Trust, its friends and enemies, and it makes you want to burn your passport and beg the Luftwaffe to have another go.”
Source : "AA Gill obituary" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2016. 
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“There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.”
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“Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.”
Source : A. C. Grayling (2009). “Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values”, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press
