All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Samuel Richardson

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Guy Debord

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein

Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations.

Jane Austen

If winds are the spirit of the sky's ocean, the clouds are the texture. Their is easily the most uninhibited dominion of the earth. Nothing in physical shape is too fantastic for them. They can be round as apples or as fine as string, as dense as a jungle, as wispy as a whiff of down, as mild as puddle water or as potent as the belch of a volcano. Some are thunderous anvils formed by violent up drafts from the warm earth. Some are ragged coattails of storms that have passed. Some are stagnant blankets of warm air resting on cold. I have seen clouds in the dawn that looked like a pink Sultan with his pale harem maidens and a yellow slob of eunuch lolling impotent in the background.

Guy Murchie

I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.

Steven Wright

Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up all night?

Steven Wright

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

John Stuart Mill

You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!

Franklyn Broude

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn best by leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

Warren Bennis

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

Nate Silver

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams