Iain Peters

“It is that which we cannot control which dominates us.”
― Robin Ince, I'm a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity

“I don't think the cure for the anxiety of existence is remaining in the quiet of the attic; it didn't do much for the first Mrs Rochester.”
― Robin Ince, I'm a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity

“When someone complains that you haven't created what they wanted, that's really not your problem. It is up to them to find the means and ideas to create what they think the world is missing. Sometimes, if you want it, then it's up to you to make it. Build it and they may not come, but at least you've built something.”
― Robin Ince, I'm a Joke and So Are You: Reflections on Humour and Humanity

“Take one day; share it into sections; to each section apportion its task: leave no stray unemployed quarters of an hour, ten minutes, five minutes—include all; do each piece of business in its turn with method, with rigid regularity. The day will close almost before you are aware it has begun; and you are indebted to no one for helping you to get rid of one vacant moment: you have had to seek no one’s company, conversation, sympathy, forbearance; you have lived, in short, as an independent being ought to do.”
― Charlotte Brontë