A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

Bob Dylan

There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. To avoid the first danger, one should plant a garden, preferably where there is no grocer to confuse the issue. To avoid the second, he should lay a split of good oak on the andirons, preferably where there is no furnace, and let it warm his shins while a February blizzard tosses the trees outside. If one has cut, split, hauled, and piled his own good oak, and let his mind work the while, he will remember much about where heat comes from, and with a wealth of detail denied to those who spend the weekend in town astride a radiator.

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Alma

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

James Cronin

Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.

Russell Baker

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man.

J. Paul Getty

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, Some

I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.

Joel Silver

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing.

Billie Holiday

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

David Simon

What is more important in a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists.

Archibald MacLeish, The Premise

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much

William Shakespeare