I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

All goodness is as nothing compared to the goodness of truth; all sweets are an nothing compared to the sweetness of truth. The bliss of truth surpasses all other joys in the world.

Leo Tolstoy

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

Laura Schlessinger

You become tyrannized by this notion that women must not only be treated equally, but they must never fail.

David Duchovny

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Elias Canetti

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

Joan D. Vinge

People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

J. G. Ballard

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ivern Ball

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Edna O'Brien

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

Rodney Dangerfield

The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

I spent my whole childhood wishing I were older and now I'm spending my adulthood wishing I were younger.

Ricky Schroder

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Jeremy Bentham