Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Camille Anna Paglia

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

George Eliot

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

Tom Hanks

War makes monsters of us all.

George R.R. Martin

I listen to the police band on my CB radio. Once I dialed 911and dedicated a crime to my girlfriend.

Steven Wright

A king is history's slave.

Leo Tolstoy

Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly - I wrote it in November 2010 - but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles.

Gotye

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

Ina Garten

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

Simone Weil

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

Eliot Spitzer

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Louis L'Amour

And I believe that public broadcasting has an important trust with the American people, it's an intimate medium of television, and that we can do reading and language development for young children without getting into human sexuality.

Margaret Spellings