I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.

Once again there was the desert, and that only.

Stephen King

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another s.

Jean Paul Richter

It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.

Dan Kennedy

It's high time something was done for the pitchers. They put up the stands and take down fences to make more home runs and plague the pitchers. Let them revive the spitter and help the pitchers make a living.

Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel

We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that we choose death.

Dame Barbara Ward

Always dip your toe in the past before stepping into the future

Benny Bellamacina

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Karl Von Clausewitz

The Americans who are the most efficient people on earth...have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on a...conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider more important matters of big business and fornication.

W. Somerset Maugham, Cakes and A

A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

Robert Anton Wilson

It costs a beautiful person no exertion to paint her image on our eyes; yet how splendid is that benefit! It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Infantilism is possibly the hallmark of our generation.

John Wells