This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a wholepackage of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimesshe has to cancel the rest of the afternoon's appointments.

Steven Wright

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

Natan Sharansky

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,As I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne, Elegy 9, The Autumna

Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But it can create someone who can.People get exactly the wrong idea about belief. They think it works back to front. They think the sequence is, first object, then belief. In fact, it works the other way.

Terry Pratchett

If you want to be a winner, hang around with winners

Christopher D. Furman

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

A. N. Wilson

The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poet says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, but should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writings no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.

Lucian

Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.

Proverb

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life - in jeeps - and upset all my dreams.

Sergio Leone

Bowden Cable is the sort of honest and dependable operative that is the backbone of SpecOps. They never win commendations or medalsand the public has no knowledge of them at all. They are all worth ten of people like me.

Jasper Fforde

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Albert Camus