Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every... minutest fiber.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

feminism is for everybody

Bell Hooks

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

Richard Pryor

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Source Unknown

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Carl Jung

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Emma Goldman

Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.

Philip Massinger

Forgive thyself little, and others much.

Robert Leighton

He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

Neil Gaiman

You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

Billy Corgan

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay