The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.

You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Dale Carnegie

Other nations use force; we Britons alone use Might.

Evelyn Waugh

Men are superior to women, for one thing they can urinate from a speeding car.

Will Durst

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

Neil Young

We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

Charles Baudelaire

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

Michael Eisner

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Sarah Zettel

Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.

Noelle Oxenhandler

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.

Benjamin Franklin

Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man? a world without a sun.

CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. ii.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

William Ellery Channing

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.

Max Weber