Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

Raoul Vaneigem

We have an incapacity of proof, insurmountable by all dogmatism. We have an idea of truth, invincible to all skepticism.

Blaise Pascal

Be good and you will be lonely

Mark Twain

Life did not stop, and one had to live.

Leo Tolstoy

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

W. C. Fields

I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little.

Candice Bergen

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

Shirley MacLaine

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Stephen Bayley, Commerce and Cul

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Vicki Baum

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

Aesop

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

Madeleine L'Engle

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

George Eliot