Choosing instead to step on a landmine and be blown to pieces — Choice and endings

If we let it change us then they will have won

This is not an ending of my choosing. From now on I will choose my own endings

Womanhood... not at all a pretty sight

He had never heard a name for such a person. Did such a hybrid thing even exist?

Promise me that you will not become a politician... promise me you will become a real revolutionary instead.

Marcus felt that their beauty was not to be trusted. It was a dangerous beauty

We are your family now

If people saw him building a giant pair of silver wings, then they too would believe that they could fly

You cannot break me. You see, I know for certain that my parents were capable of flight

Valentine loved the idea that flight was possible for someone like him. Valentine believed.

This was how they learned their most valuable lesson about death - that after it there is life again, that things that perish will rise again, that after every ending there is another beginning

It is our reality, the way we live now, our truth. So of course we cannot acknowledge it, let alone print it

I have had to learn about saying no.

You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and a deep understanding of what it means to be supported by your knowledge - not by some team that is there to create confidence; it is there within you. That takes time. That takes teachers. That takes taking risks.

Make of your life a dream, and of a dream a reality.

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

The United States is not, nor has ever been, anything close to a fascist country.

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

My true social media passion is making creepy short movies on Instagram.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

The vulgar and the many are fit only to be led or driven.

From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader but I'm going to get out of here and do something.'

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

Understanding where your food comes from, trying to bolster local farmers and local economies and having a better connection to the food around you and the people around you, only good can come of that. I love to be involved with things like that.

I am a strong, independent person.

But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.

Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.

I ended the war a horse ahead.

Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing. In short, radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events.

My personal view is that organisations have a capacity to throw up extraordinary leaders to suit the occasion.

Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us.

I just love the hours of the theatre, I love the way it operates. I always say that when you're doing a play it's like getting a shot of B12, and when you do television for a long series you need a shot of B12.

Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating.