Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.

Jodi Picoult

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Quentin Crisp

One may choose to call that god even if one does not know the precise nature of the first cause.

Christopher Hitchens

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Allan Bloom

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

David Byrne

Friends are thieves of time.

Francis Bacon

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.

Christopher Hitchens

The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad.

Salvador Dali

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.

William Gilmore Simms

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.

Seneca