When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children

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

Madeleine L'Engle

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.

Graham Greene

I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, make you safe.

Lionel Shriver

Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

Selma James

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting.

Jim Henson

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Thomas Jefferson

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

Nick Lampson

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Abraham Cahan

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Susan Sontag

Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.

Simon Mainwaring

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

Ernest Hemingway