What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

Graham Brown

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Pierre Joseph Proudhon

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

Juliet Stevenson

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

Thomas Dolby

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

James Thurber

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

J. D. Salinger

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Stephen King

The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.

John Spong

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Maurice Blanchot

I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

Albert Einstein

Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.

Walter Benjamin

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Coco Chanel