A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Edmund Burke

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

James Fenimore Cooper

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Noam Chomsky

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

Charles Dickens

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Criss Jami

We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

Michael McCaul

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

John Hughes

Physician -- One upon whom we set our hopes when ill and our dogs when well.

Ambrose Bierce

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

Roger Ebert

To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.

Rickey Henderson