Illescas Brookfield Quotes

#1. Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

Jeff VanderMeer

#2. I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

Albert Einstein

#3. If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

T.H. White

#4. Whatever you want, work for it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?

Shelley Duvall

#6. Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.

Vaclav Klaus

#7. In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

Colm Toibin