I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

George Bernard Shaw

The great hope of society is in individual character.

William Ellery Channing

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.

John Robinson

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Henrik Ibsen

I think there's not much patience for organized labour, period, public or private sector.

Kathleen Wynne

Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.

Abraham Lincoln

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.

Joyce Carol Oates

If I was going to pick one person in the world to reattach my head, I'd pick you

Rick Riordan

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

James Russell Lowell

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.

Donald Curtis

What they didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

Doris Lessing