Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

Catherynne M. Valente

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

Ambrose Bierce

While the early deists were busy reconstructing Christianity, at the same time being very careful to avoid the accusation of atheism, the world of science had been steadily progressing.

Jonathan Miller

The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since decided that the world, Above or Below, was a place that wished to be deceived, and, to this end, he had named himself from a lie in a fairy tale, and created himself--his clothes, his manner, his carriage--as a grand joke.There was a dull pain in his wrists and his feet, and he was finding it harder and harder to breathe. There was nothing more to be gained by feigning unconsciousness, and he raised his head, as best he could, and spat a gob of scarlet blood into Mr. Vandemar's face.It was a brave thing to do, he thought. And a stupid one. Perhaps they would have let him die quietly, if he had not done that. Now, he had no doubt, they would hurt him more. And perhaps his death would come the quicker for it.

Neil Gaiman

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Thomas Carlyle

Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him.

Clark Moustakas

Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

Meister Eckhart, Ordinary Graces

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Simone Weil

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

John Morley

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

Tom Sizemore

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Graham Greene