For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Alexander Pope

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

Alice Foote MacDougall

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

Neil Gaiman

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

Kurt Loder

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

JeanPaul Sartre, The Devil and t

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

Don DeLillo

The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the world to live with a woman.

Albert Camus

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received

Albert Einstein

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

Harry S. Truman

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn.

David Wilkerson

Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

True, conscious honour is to feel no sin; he's armed without that's innocent within.

Alexander Pope