I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government.

Aldous Huxley

Shanghai set out to take over from Hong Kong and I think it's done that. It's got the most amazing futuristic skyline which rivals and even betters Tokyo.

Paul Oakenfold

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w

Ernest Hemingway

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

Anya Seton

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

Robert Frost

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

Mason Cooley

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

Raymond Chandler

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

June Jordan

Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.

Famke Janssen

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Jim Fraser

We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Thomas Alva Edison

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Lou Holtz