Hatred. Something almost as physical as walls, pianos, or nurses. She could almost touch the destructive energy leaking out of her body. She allowed the feeling to emerge, regardless of whether it was good or bad; she was sick of self-control, of masks, of appropriate behavior. Veronika wanted to spend her remaining two or three days of life behaving as inappropriately as she could.

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.

James Fenimore Cooper

Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.

Source Unknown

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.

David Lewis-Williams

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

Jane Seymour

Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin from a cluster of U.S. satellites flying in geosynchronous orbit. At the first sign of trouble the satellites will drop the tomato on the Kremlin, drowning the fractious Muscovites in ketchup.

Alexander Cockburn

Pleasure is Nature

Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Und

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.

Katherine Mansfield

People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.

Claude Monet

We the people have no excuse for starry-eyed sycophantic group-think in the Information Age. Knowledge is but a fingertip away.

Tiffany Madison

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Even the pigeons are dancing, kissing,going in circles, mounting each other.Paris is the city of love,even for the birds.

Samantha Schutz

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.

Robert Frost