My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

May Sarton

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

B. R. Ambedkar

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights.'White to play and mate in two moves.'Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.

George Orwell

Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league.

Eric Clapton

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.

David Cronenberg

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

Virginia Woolf

I've read the dictionary book of the following word: Tyranny - To make the laughter stop.It's hard that thousand year olds don't understand.

A Gentlemen

Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.

Terry Pratchett

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

George Raft

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson