I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.

Aldous Huxley

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

Syd Barrett

I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.

Dan Savage

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.

Philip Pullman

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.

Lord Greville

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

Will Rogers

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

George J. Mitchell

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

Chester Bennington

We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.

Michael Oxley

A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

R. L. Stine