What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.

Dave Edmunds

Most of the people who will walk behind me will be children so make the beat keep time with short steps.

Hans Christian Andersen

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb a the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.

Oscar Wilde

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

James Laughlin

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Sara Gruen

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

Virginia Woolf

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Mark Twain

When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently.

Bhagavad Gita

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

Paul Davies

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process.

Jorge Luis Borges

If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.

James Thurber