It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Science, the agent that once promised to eradicate the supernatural, had, through the nuclear threat, resurrected it. Magic was not exactly alive, but it was surely undead.

Jim Trombetta

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

Alfred Austin

Its marvelous what you can see when you open your eyes.

Source Unknown

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

Tom Colicchio

Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?

Persius

Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.

Wayne L. Misner

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Benjamin Franklin

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

Susan Sontag

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.

John Selden

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Your darkest enemy is the one who bows you down to the floor like a servant and wastes half your life in meaningless rituals. This was done to you by men and women whose only desire was to enslave you; they have succeeded so well that you are proud of your slavery.

Orson Scott Card

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

Ursula K. LeGuin