Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.

Bhagavad Gita

What if somebody gave a war andNobody came?Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy andForever be Itself again.

Allen Ginsberg, Graffiti, 1972

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

Terry Pratchett

Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

Camille Anna Paglia

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Jean Rostand

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

Adam Sandler

It is all nonsense, to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams - not by any means of all dreams - moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis.

Arthur Machen

I'm not for gratuitous nudity, but if there's humor, I don't have a problem.

Rebecca Romijn

No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.

Samuel Johnson

That a marriage ends is less than ideal but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.

John Updike

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

Plato

Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength.

Ovid