The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

George J. Mitchell

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Kurt Vonnegut

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

Pliny the Elder

It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.

Josh Hutcherson

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm just a pretty regular dad.

Ang Lee

The key to understanding others is to first understand yourself

Source Unknown

We are all brothers, and yet I live by receiving a salary for arraigning, judging and punishing a thief or a prostitute, whose existence is conditioned by the whole consumption of my life.

Leo Tolstoy

That, Verena managed after some suspenseful seconds, is, she said, regarding her gloved hands, remarkable. Very. I wouldn't have credited either of you with so much imagination. Or is it that I am imagining? Quite likely I'm dreaming of myself in a wet tree on a thundery night. Except I never have dreams, or perhaps I only forget them. This one I suggest we all forget.I'll own up: I think it is a dream. Miss Verena. But a man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison.

Truman Capote, The Glass Harp

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Ronald Reagan

It is easy to forgive an insult, but harder to forget one.

Michael Lipsey