Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve.

The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

John Avlon

Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

Sigmund Freud

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Gertrude Stein

O honorable strumpet

William Shakespeare

Communists have become bureaucrats. If anything will destroy us, it is this.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov), 1922

Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

Hamerton

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Johann von Goethe

We also listen to PJ Harvey a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.

Brody Armstrong

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

Willie Aames

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

Friedrich A. Hayek

What is without periods of rest will not endure.

Ovid

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.

Arnold Schwarzenegger