What greater flood can there be than the flood of ideas? How quickly they submerge all that they set out to destroy, how rapidly do they create terrifying depths?

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

E. L. Doctorow

Just as humans have a prior right to existence over dogs by virtue of being more highly evolved and having a superior consciousness, so women have a prior right to existence over men. The elimination of any male is, therefore, a righteous and good act, an act highly beneficial to women as well as an act of mercy.

Valerie Solanis

Scent is the strongest tie to memory.

Maggie Stiefvater

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

Godfrey Reggio

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

Thomas Carlyle

Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.

William Ellery Channing

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Johann von Goethe

No aacomplishments are important than self realization of self satisfaction.

Santosh Kalwar

Of course the cat will growl and spit at the operator and bite him if she can. But the real question is whether he is a vet or a vivisector.

C.S. Lewis

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

Julia Margaret Cameron

Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.

Marilyn French

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Laurence J. Peter