Thomas de Quincey

Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.