I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.

Ghost stars shine their light upon us, long after they're gone.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Religion and law try to escape from criticism, religion by saying that it is divine and law by showing that it is powerful.

Leo Tolstoy

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Michel Houellebecq

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Gita Bellin

Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.

Robert Zend

How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?

Friedrich Nietzsche

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas

It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion...

Robertson Davies, Can a Doctor B

One year they asked me to be poster boy for birth control.

Rodney Dangerfield

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Vance Havner