„Some of my friends are skeptical when they hear me say this, but I am by nature a person who dislikes confrontation.“

— Desmond Tutu

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„But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.“
— Agatha Christie
„a poem is a naked person... some people say that I am a poet“
— Bob Dylan
„At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone … & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world….“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley