An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Bertolt Brecht

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Katherine F. Gerould

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

Jon Krakauer

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?

Tim Reid

Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

Susan Sontag

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Eckhart Tolle

Sinn Fein has productively taken the example of South Africa and, as we develop the peace process, we continue to use examples from South Africa.

Gerry Adams

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

Stephen King

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

Ella Maillart

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson