I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.

Our minds are like our stomaches they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Quintilian

I like poems that are little games.

Peter Davison

Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.

Michael Dirda

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question Why did you start using narcotics in the first place? should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

William S. Burroughs

I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.

Eddie Vedder

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Johnny Depp

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

B. R. Ambedkar

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Mason Cooley

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

Marshall McLuhan

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

Max Frisch

I declare that I will establish peace in this world.

Prem Rawat

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

William Shakespeare