"Between A High, Solid Wall And An Egg That Breaks Against It, I Will Always Stand On The Side Of The Egg."

An excerpt from the infamous yet brilliant Award Recipient Speech delivered by Haruki Murakami, one of the greatest writer of our time, when he collected the much coveted Jerusalem Prize in Israel last month. "I have only one thing I hope to convey to you today. We are all human beings, individuals transcending nationality and race and religion, fragile eggs faced with a solid wall called The System. To all appearances, we have no hope of winning. The wall is too high, too strong - and too cold. If we have any hope of victory at all, it will have to come from our believing in the utter uniqueness and irreplaceability of our own and others' souls and from the warmth we gain by joining souls together."

"Remember, remember the 5th of November."

"Remember, remember the 5th of November. The gunpowder, treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot." "But on this most auspicious of nights permit me then in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet to suggest the character of the dramatis persona. Voila! In view a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity is a vestige of the vox populi now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain for the value and voracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Heh heh heh, verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V." - V

"Ever have a bully pick on you in school? I knocked the bully out. That's what it feels like." - Boston Celtics'Kevin Garnett, right after humiliating the Los Angeles Lakers 131-92 in the second-most lopsided blowout in NBA Finals history, capturing their first National Basketball Association title since 1986 in record-shattering fashion.

"I will make it clear in court. I don't know how he'd feel about it. But I want to tell him I'll pick up his bones for sure." - Said a 55 year-old Japanese father who has called for his own son to hang after a gruesome murder spree in which the teenager killed three family members before slashing open his mother's belly and putting a doll inside..

"An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves." - William E. ("Bill") Vaughan (October 8, 1915 – February 25, 1977).

"All of us, among the ruins, are preparing a renaissance beyond the limits of nihilism. But few of us know it." - Albert Camus (November 7, 1913 – January 4, 1960). And the neverending struggle against Nihilism got unbalanced on today, ninety-four years ago.

"If I wanted to have an easy job...I would have stayed at Porto - beautiful blue chair, the UEFA Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me." - José Mourinho, the former coach of Chelsea Football Club. Hell, I'll miss this guy. Loved his pre/post match banters.

"I'm just someone who's pissed off at all mankind even though I'm a man myself. I'm past the point of no return... I know not what the future holds, but in the time that I have, I shall be the ruin of evil men that cross my path." - - Ronin Nemuri Kyôshirô (眠狂四郎), Sleepy Eyes of Death #1 (眠狂四郎殺法帖 Nemuri Kyoshiro 1: Sappocho, 1963).

"My dick's in the bitch's mouth -- and I don't mean in a good way." - Herr Starr, in response after getting his genitalia chewed off by a Rottweiler. Herr Starr, the secondary antagonist (the main antagonist being God) from one of the best comic series ever in my opinion, Preacher. Just one of the many great characters in the uber-epic, Preacher, revisited while browsing around. Lately, besides the defining run on The Punisher, Garth Ennis still produces mostly gems with his huge body of works lately, namely, Chronicles of Wormwood from Avatar Press, and The Boys, recently moved to Dynamite Entertainment after Wildstorm freak out. Anyway, DC now has a page for the trade, sporting extra material like a seven page sample and a trailer.

"O love, O celibate. Nobody but me Walks the waist high wet. The irreplaceable Golds bleed and deepen, the mouths of Thermopylae." - Sylvia Plath, suicide at 31, faces her own Themopylae walking in the garden in the poem "Letter in November".. The usual post-movie ritual of researching over the source material brought me to this. Melancholic stuffs.

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die." - Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) . To the great macabre mind who departed on this day seventy years ago.

"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell." - Bertrand Russell(1872 - 1970).

"We will do our best to ensure safety ... but I cannot say please come cheer for your side because I really don't know what's going to happen." - Thailand's Tourism and Sports Minister, Dr Suvit Yodmani. Certainly, these comments will boost the receding tourism in Thailand for tickling the bones of adventure-seeking Singaporean. Particularly those with a death wish.

Visionaries

"A whim, a thought, and more is sought. Awake my mind; thy will be wrought!" - Arzon, of the Spectral Knights, from the unfortunately short-lived 1987 animation series, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, roaring out loud, his magical chanting verse before unleashing his totem staff's power of knowledge. Always had find the "Visionaries" a staple of good ol' Saturday morning cartoon, with all the wholesome yet relatively enriching niche arc referencing magical elements. More sounds and visuals, here.

"So many babies, not all of them dead, are being dumped in the bush that hyenas have developed a taste for human flesh," - he explains.

"Do you consider this bravery?" - One of Saddam Hussein's last words, right before the execution.

"My appeal is simple: Give yourself up. Make contact with Suffolk Police. You have a significant problem. Give me a call and we can deal with this." - Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull, has this to say to the "Ipswich Ripper", here.

"I do not know who we are looking for. He may be local, he may be from away. We could draw a number of conclusions as to where the bodies have been deposited and found. Anything is possible." - Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull, on the "Ipswich Ripper" murders Another Gull in another Ripper tale...

"Like everyone else you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!" - Bruce Lee,(27 November, 1940 - 20 July, 1973), as Mr. Longstreet's fighting coach in TV series "Longstreet". Happy 56th Birthday, Bruce!

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." - Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering, before committing suicide at the Nuremberg Trials