My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.

Christopher Hitchens

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

Tim Heidecker

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Joseph Wood Krutch

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

Colette, The Pure and the Impure

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is as wrong for one person to rule many as for many to rule one.

Leo Tolstoy

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Harold Lokes

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

Helen Rowland

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

Murray Kempton

There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.

Rudyard Kipling