Gertjan

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.”
― E.B. White

“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms