Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Chuck Palahniuk

At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be.

Christopher Hitchens

The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Chris Bowkett

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off

Christopher Hitchens

If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you.

R. A. Torrey

We are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Meg White

Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

Gerard Way

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

Simone Weil