In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

The sad thing is that I feel so boring because 'Twilight' is literally how every conversation I have these days begins - whether it's someone I'm meeting for the first time or someone I just haven't seen in a while. The first thing I want to say to them is, 'It's insane! And, as a person, I can't do anything!'

Kristen Stewart

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

Andre Breton

Love is the hero of all emotions. My love for you is a superhero, and it looks great hidden behind a mask.

Jarod Kintz

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

Montserrat Caballe

Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in Kashmir, or the woes of the Chechens and Kosovars. But the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there's no point in any euphemism about it. What they abominate about 'the West,' to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state. Loose talk about chickens coming home to roost is the moral equivalent of the hateful garbage emitted by Falwell and Robertson, and exhibits about the same intellectual content.

Christopher Hitchens

A good night's sleep, or a ten-minute brawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

Too many people want to have written.

Terry Pratchett

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

John Adams

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

Francis Thompson

More of your conversation would infect my brain.

William Shakespeare

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Andre Maurois

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

Bob Geldof