Smoke; it's worth it.

IT'S AMAZING! No smoking on the train! What happened? Are we in Waukegan, Illinois? Europe is civilisation. You're not supposed to be gawked at or pointed at or mocked for smoking. I've always thought of starting my own airline, if I could get a bunch of investors together, called 'Air Smoke'. We'd make smoking mandatory. We'd issue the customers a little packet of cigarettes and tell them that we expect it to be done by the time we reach our destination.

- Johnny Depp

I'VE BEEN doing some sums following the recent medical assertion that every fag you smoke costs you eleven minutes of your life. Let's take somebody who is aged 100 and has smoked a modest ten a day since the age of 15. That's 310,250 cigarettes or a total of 3,412,750 minutes of lost time. In more understandable terms, that means this person would have lived an extra six and a half years if he-she hadn't ever smoked. My question is: would that be much of a bonus?

- James Whitaker

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

- Mark Twain

David Lynch is a goddamn genius.

Inland Empire. One of the most profound cinematic experiences I've had in my life. Literally light years away from where films and cinema stand today.

A daily fuck you to religion will make you live longer.

What can I say? I love Hitchens.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a hero.

I love the way the audience gets up and applauds. A truly respectful woman with a very urgent and important message.

9/11 Conspiracy Theories.

Like all conspiracy theories (they are not based on actual evidence, they explain less than they demand to be explained, they invoke an all-powerful "world conspiracy" that controls everything thus implying that people are powerless and mere pawns in the grand scheme for world domination, they are mostly paranoid, delusional and superstitious to the boot) 9/11 conspiracy theories are BULLSHIT. Terrible and unexpected things happen, they can happen and will continue to happen and most of the time for reasons that are not so comfortable to accept. Such is life. Deal with it squarely, and not with a science fiction romanticism.

Quotes for the ages.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

- Antoine De-Saint Exupery

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

- George Bernard Shaw

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

- Nicolas de Chamfort

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

- Dale Carnegie

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

- Arnold Bennett