Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Samuel Pepys

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder censorship, we call it concern for commercial viability.

David Mamet

Denial and affirmation are games which people play.There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.

Idries Shah

I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.

Samuel Johnson

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg

There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.

Neil Gaiman

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

L.M. Montgomery

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Charles Caleb Colton

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Kwame Nkrumah

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

C. S. Lewis

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

Bernard Cornwell

I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it!

Tommy Lee Jones