"You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct."
— Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park)

"Samuel McDermott or not, I was Ian McDermott, and the way I saw life was the way I'd live life."
— Michael Harmon

"Why are you try so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out."
— What a Girl Wants-Ian

"George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge"
— John le Carré

"Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.~ Ian Anderson"
— Ian Anderson