Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

Luis Bunuel

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Desmond Morris

So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Rita Dove

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Russell Baker

If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.

Carl Sagan

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Francis Bacon

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

Jose Carreras

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

Roberto Cavalli

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Black with hate, said Becca. You are gathering your people with hate. Can you imagine conducting a war with love? asked Ta-Kumsaw. That's a reason to refuse to make war at all, she said gently.

Orson Scott Card

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Samuel Johnson