"What are you doing here," he asked the drunkard...
""Drinking," replied the drunkard, with a gloomy expression.
"Why are you drinking?" the little prince asked.
"To forget," replied the drunkard.
"To forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him.
"To forget that I'm ashamed," confessed the drunkard, hanging his head.
"What are you ashamed of?" inquired the little prince, who wanted to help.
"Of drinking!" concluded the drunkard...
"For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers?... Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, even without realizing what he's doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?'"
Astropop3, Vortex 479, Silverscene, Dorian Grey, Panda, 1888, A Bit Further West, The Bedroom Set, Cobraspa, Nina Nastasia, Sade, Harry Connick Jr., Stone Roses, The Cure, U2, The Cars, Ivy, any New Wave Brit Pop to Old School Hip Hop...
Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, In the Mood for Love, Rashamon, To Live, Raise the Red Lantern, Temptress Moon, The 7 Samurai, The Audition, Amelie, Cinema Paradisio, Tron, Legend, Happiness, and The Ring (the Japanese version.)
The Little Prince, Te Tao Ching, The Ancient Art of War, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Don Quixote, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Fountainhead, Atlus Shrugged, Great Expectations, Little Women, and Starship Troopers.