You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Charles Simmons

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.

Milan Kundera

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time

Virginia Woolf

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.

Steven Weinberg

I cast unusual people in my movies.

Albert Brooks

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

Bob Dylan

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress.

Justin Amash

Commitment is Circumstances

Leju Thomas

How easy would life be if you were less intelligent!

Gerhard Kocher

Action expresses priorities.

Mahatma Gandhi

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Samuel Butler