Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them filet mignon and truffle sauce and then ask them to go back to living off the land, and they will always be thinking of that gourmet meal. If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it.

The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman.

Sergio Aragones

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

Patti Smith

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

James Madison

Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.

Theodore Sturgeon

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

Voltaire

Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

Harry S Truman

She did not want to say it, because it made no practical sense, but in the end she went to Japan for the delicate sake cups, resting in her hand like a blossom; she went to Japan for loveliness.

Z.Z. Packer

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

Plato

In oratory the will must predominate.

David Hare

His creed no parson ever knew, for this was still his simple plan, to have with clergymen to do as little as a Christian can.

Sir Francis Doyle

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Alfred North Whitehead

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Benjamin Franklin