Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

E. B. White

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Ray Bradbury

A tightness in my chest came out of nowhere. As I listened to Amanda reassure my brother, I wanted to pull her into my arms and cry. How damn crazy was that? This girl was making me a nutcase.

Abbi Glines

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

Tadao Ando

I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.

Brad Delson

Progress is a natural result of staying focused on the process of doing anything.

Thomas M. Sterner

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

Mort Sahl

Often quoted in forms that correspond only loosely to Hugo's original words, for example: No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation.

William James, The Varieties of

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states.

Evo Morales

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Samuel Johnson