No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Sigmund Freud

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It would be worth the while to look closely into the eye which has been open and seeing at such hours, and in such solitudes, its dull, yellowish, greenish eye. Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

Henry David Thoreau

My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.

Peter Agre

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

Henry Kissinger

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

John Steinbeck

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated -- serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.

P. J. O'Rourke

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Susan Sontag

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Mark Twain

Perfect wisdom has four parts, viz., wisdom, the principle of doing things aright; justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private; fortitude, the principle of not flying danger, but meeting it; and temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Plato

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Nelson Mandela