It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

David Bailey

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.

Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

William Feather, The Business of

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Adam Sedgwick

The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.

Richard Dawkins

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Amy Lowell

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

Robert Fripp

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

Some say that because the United States was wrong before, it cannot possibly be right now, or has not the right to be right. (The British Empire sent a fleet to Africa and the Caribbean to maintain the slave trade while the very same empire later sent another fleet to enforce abolition. I would not have opposed the second policy because of my objections to the first; rather it seems to me that the second policy was morally necessitated by its predecessor.)

Christopher Hitchens

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.

Dennis Prager

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

Colin Powell