Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Oscar Wilde

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.

Terry Pratchett

A little kingdom I possess,Where thoughts and feelings dwell;And very hard the task I findOf governing it well.

Louisa May Alcott, My Kingdom st

Poetry does not consist of words alone there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

Samuel Prout

Science is facts.

Henri Poincare

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Oscar Wilde

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.

Whoopi Goldberg

O misery, misery, mumble and moan!Someone invented the telephone,And interrupted a nation's slumbers,Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

Ogden Nash, Look What You Did, C

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

Ted Solotaroff

There is always time for another last minute

Terry Pratchett