Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

Virginia Woolf, "New Republic",

I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.

Fred Durst

The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.

Helen P. Blavatsky, The Voice of

We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Serj Tankian

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

Steve Forbes

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Oscar Wilde

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

Alanis Morissette

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

George S. Patton

There is never a traffic jam on the extra mile.

Anonymous

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

William Shakespeare

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Robert Half

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

Paulo Coelho