Gentlemen, my odds for success improve with each attempt.

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.

Geraldine Brooks

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

Judith Light

In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.

Lincoln Diaz-Balart

I just go about my life. I'm a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I'm definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I'm a celebrity-adjacent.

Diablo Cody

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Harold MacMillan

Go to your bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know

William Shakespeare

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Oscar Wilde

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.

Joseph Conrad

Marriage is a risk I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

Cate Blanchett

If we like them, they're freedom fighters . . . If we don't like them, they're terrorists. In the unlikely case we can't make up our minds, they're temporarily only guerrillas.

Carl Sagan, Contact, Part I : Th

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

Tryon Edwards