What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

Samuel Butler

Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.

Neil Abramson

Your life is always under construction. It is your job to learn howto untangle the threads and weave a tapestry that matches your desires.

Dannye Williamsen

If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.

Steven Wright

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Janet Guthrie

Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.

Lenny Bruce

The key to making money is to stay invested.

Suze Orman

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

Yancy Butler

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Emile M. Cioran

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

E. M. Forster

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Lucan