Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

Troy Vincent

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

Ian Somerhalder

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

Quentin Crisp

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Proverb

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

Plato

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

Charles Bukowski

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

Willie Nelson

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

David Hilbert

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Calvin Coolidge

Society therefore is an ancient as the world.

Voltaire

(About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely people who are happy should look happy, at all times, no matter how much money they have or how uncomfortable their shoes are or how little their child is sleeping; and people who are doing OK but have still not found their soul-mate should look, I don't know, anxious, like Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally; and people who are desperate should wear something, a yellow ribbon maybe, which would allow them to be identified by similar desperate people.

Nick Hornby

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Lynda Barry