Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Henry Ward Beecher

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Steve Jobs

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

Don Van Vliet

Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.

Steve Maraboli

Of Consciousness, her awful Mate. The Soul cannot be rid -- as easy the secreting her behind the Eyes of God.

Emily Dickinson

We pretend that we know our children, because it's easier than admitting the truth--from the minute that cord is cut, they are strangers. It's far easier to tell yourself your daughter is still a little girl than to see her in a bikini and realize she has the curves of a young woman; it's safer to say you're a good parent who has all the right conversations about drugs and sex than to acknowledge there are a thousand things she would never tell you.

Jodi Picoult

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Marilyn Manson

Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

Benjamin Disraeli

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

Yoko Ono

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions.

Bodhidharma

A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.

Andrew Vachss