And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now.

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

Alan Dershowitz

What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination.

Joey Lawsin

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

Bede Jarrett, The House of Gold

Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.

Julianna Baggott

Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.

Roger McGough

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Walter Benjamin

My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Katharine Hepburn

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.... I cannot tell if I would have done any creative work of importance in music, but I do know that I get most joy in life out of my violin.

Albert Einstein

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Whoever possesses God in their being, has him in a divine manner, and he shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.

Meister Eckhart

It's not easy to define poetry.

Bob Dylan

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

Janis Joplin