All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

Poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of nature of universals, whereas those of history are of singulars

Aristotle

I would guess that any criticism about Wal-Mart could have some element of truth with 1,500,000 people.

Lee Scott

the mind is a neural computer

Steven Pinker

If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

Evelyn Waugh

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.

Lawrence Kasdan

One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life.

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Age affects how people experience time. The observations on this are well known, so it is only necessary to outline briefly what has been the experience of everyone I have ever talked to or read about: the years go faster as one gets older. At the age of four or six, a year seems interminable; at sixty, the years begin to blend and are frequently hard to separate from each other because they move so fast! There are, of course, a number of common-sense explanations for this sort of thing. If you have only lived five years, a year represents 20 percent of your life; if you have lived fifty years, that same year represents only 2 percent of your life, and since lives are lived as wholes, this logarithmic element would make it difficult to maintain the same perspective on the experience of a year

Edward T. Hall

I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something beautiful. Well, it turns out I am, and I am.

Jason Letts

Nature is not affected by finance. If someone offered you ten thousand dollars to let them touch your eyeball without blinking, you would never collect the money. At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

Dick Gregory

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

Arthur Young

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

Paul Nurse