Beauty and the devil are the same thing.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

Neil Gaiman

Sometimes the fullness of life comes in doing things that are only understood by you, God, and the special people God has put in your life that truly love your for you not for what you do, but for who you are.

Lacey Sturm

Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.

H. L. Mencken

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Havelock Ellis

In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.

Bradley Denton

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Plato

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

Ada Cambridge

To me, what socialism means is to guarantee a basic level of dignity. It's asserting the value of saying that the America we want and the America that we are proud of is one in which all children can access a dignified education. It's one in which no person is too poor to have the medicines they need to live.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

You cannot find the centre Where we dance, where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower, Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven.

R. S. Thomas

Past and present religious atrocities have occured not because we are evil, but because it is a fact of nature that the human species is, biologically, only partly rational. Evolution has meant that our prefrontal lobes are too small, our adrenal glands are too big, and our reproductive organs apparently designed by committee; a recipe which, alone or in combination, is very certain to lead to some unhappiness and disorder.

Christopher Hitchens

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

William Shakespeare

The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost nothing we understand better or react to more readily or with quicker intelligence. In ways that we do not easily or willingly define, the gangster speaks for us, expressing that part of the American psyche which rejects the qualities and the demands of modern life, which rejects Americanism itself.

Robert Warshow