My books are water; those of great geniuses are wine everybody drinks water

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Alphonse Karr

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

Al Goldstein

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Albert Camus

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Kenneth L. Pike

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.

Robert M. Pirsig

It doesn't matter much what happens in this world, there's going to be somebody who'll tell you that he knew it would.

Source Unknown

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.

Michel Foucault

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

Jodi Picoult

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

J. C. Watts

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

William Bartram

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Henry David Thoreau