We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal of freedom. We're not free - if we were, we'd allow people their freedom.

She seemed dressed in all of me, stretched across my shame.All the torment and the pain leaked through and covered me.I'd do anything to have her to myself.Just to have her for myselfNow I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do when she makes me sane.She is everything to me.The unrequited dreamA song that no one sings.The unattainable, Shes a myth that I have to believe inAll I need to make it real is one more reasonI don't know what to do, I don't know what to do when she makes me sad.

Slipknot

It must be fun to be you And play with love as you do To treat each new romance As merely one more dance Or just another book to glance through It must be fun to acquire Whatever heart you desire, And when you're bored with it To tear it in two, It must be fun to be you.

Cole Porter

Teach that God is, not was; that He speaketh, not spake.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have nothing but respect for the Lakers. So many of their legends shaped who I am as a person and player.

Bill Walton

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

John le Carre

Order the beauty even of beauty is, It is the rule of bliss, The very life and form and cause of pleasure.

Thomas Traherne

The nod means 'I am a badass, and I recognise that you too, are a badass.

Cassandra Clare

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Adlai Stevenson

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...

E.E. Cummings

Music inflames temperament.

Jim Morrison

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Patricia Ireland