Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

James Branch Cabell made this book so that he who wills may read the story of mans eternally unsatisfied hunger in search of beauty. Ettarre stays inaccessible always and her lovliness is his to look on only in his dreams. All men she must evade at the last and many ar the ways of her elusion.

James Branch Cabell

If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.

Albert Camus

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

Kate Beckinsale

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

Arthur Erickson

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

Jim Lehrer

The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.

Dan Cook, "The Washington Post",

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.

Ronald Reagan

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship never.

Albert Camus

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean Paul Sartre

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

George Borrow

A full belly makes a dull brain

Benjamin Franklin

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.

Rita Rudner