I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Theodore Dreiser

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Henry Louis Gates

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Voltaire

No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Samuel Johnson

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Germaine Greer

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Alan Kay

Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.

Ralph J. Cudworth

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

William Christopher

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

Plato

Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert.

Kahlil Gibran

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

Robert Benchley

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Nelson Mandela