“Ad astra per alia porci”

“You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.”

“Per aspera ad Astra.”

“Ad astra per aspera, to the stars through adversity”

“Ad astra per aspera- From the mud to the stars”

“When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they will break and tatter under the touch. You must let them ooze and crawl of their own will onto a knife blade and lift them gently into your bottle of sea water. And perhaps that might be the way to write this book-to open the page and let the stories crawl in by themselves.”

“Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.”