coffee, running, Spiderman, photography, oceans, reading, fitness, fair trade, teaching, learning, people-watching, mischief, football, international development, self-development

The Black Dahlia, Bunraku, Fist of Legend, Casablanca, I Am Number Four, How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, The Brothers Bloom, The Lookout, American Psycho, Crash, Taken, It's a Wonderful Life, How To Train Your Dragon, Revolver, V For Vendetta, Ocean's Eleven, The Departed, The Matrix, Moulin Rouge, Speed Racer, Kill Bill, Lucky Number Slevin, 12 Monkeys, The Motorcycle Diaries, Spiderman, Gattaca, Boondock Saints, Run Lola Run, Harvey, EuroTrip, Sherlock Holmes, Goodbye Lenin, Edward Scissorhands, Shawshank Redemption, Aladdin, Iron Giant, Black Mask, Casino Royale, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Shoot 'Em Up, Coraline, Hudson Hawk, The Usual Suspects, About a Boy, In Bruges, Love Actually, Sideways, Hero, Rent, Powder, Swing Time, Hairspray, Superbad, Ghost Dog, Brick, Wings of Desire, The Sandlot, 300, Without Limits, Life Is Beautiful, Black Gold, Metropolis, Daredevil, Fight Club, Layer Cake, Four Brothers, Crank, Igby Goes Down, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Invincible, Wanted, L.A. Confidential, Elizabethtown, The Pianist, Hitman, 21, The Constant Gardener, Wedding Crashers, Astro Boy

Destiny Disrupted, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The Name of the Wind, A Drink Before the War, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Atlas Shrugged, The Lightning Thief, The-Manual-of-Detection, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Way of Shadows, Apathy and Other Small Victories, Shibumi, Infidel, The Big Sleep, The Fountainhead, Unweaving the Rainbow, The Black Echo, Catcher In The Rye, Lila, The Black Dahlia, Hamlet, River Town, The Virtue of Selfishness, Ender's Game, Siddhartha, Beat the Reaper, Animal Factory, The God Delusion, Storm Front, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Great Gatsby, Angels and Demons, The Killer Inside Me, A Brief History of Time, Mystic River, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Double Indemnity, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, The End of Poverty

"Vincit qui se vincit."

"I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king..." - Frank

"I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live." - John Galt

"There's no certainty, only opportunity." - V

"People won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough or quick enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to." - Burke

"Be good to one another. Set yourself free. All the pieces, they fall together." - Lucky Boys Confusion

"You can pay for school but you can't buy class." - Jay-Z

"There is no end to the adventures we can have, if only we seek them with our eyes and our minds open." - Jawaharlal Nehru

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." - E. B. White

"I should be doing my homework now. But the way I see it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life: procrastinating and rationalizing." - Calvin

"There is more than just grandeur in this view of life, bleak and cold though it can seem from under the security blanket of ignorance. There is a deep refreshment to be had from standing up and facing straight into the strong keen wind of understanding." - Richard Dawkins