Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

George Bernard Shaw

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Henry Miller

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Carl Bernstein, In Guardian, (Lo

Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Margaret Fuller

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

Evan Davis

In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

Candace Bushnell

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

Geronimo

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

Aldous Huxley

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

Sting