I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Walter Benjamin

I have seen doctors, in good faith, leave patients on steroids for years, thinking they are doing right. A friend of mine was on steroids for so long, she has severe osteoporosis.

Mary Ann Mobley

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

Anwar Sadat

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

Mary A. Ward

I'm one of those people that thinks the Internet is amazing, and I can't believe it exists.

Mayim Bialik

I bought an echo and you bought gecko... stuff.

Leslie Hochsztein

I played it right because that's what you're supposed to do - play it right and with respect.

Ryne Sandberg

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Margot Asquith

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

William Hazlitt

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

Samuel Johnson

Deep layers of context are missed when cursorily reading for quantity at the expense of comprehension - only the vapid are impressed by those who try to squeeze as many books as possible into each passing month as if shoving one more oiled hot dog down the gullet in a food eating contest to prove accumulation superiority.

Wil Zeus

People assume when my hair is long, that I'm a lot cooler than I actually am. I'm not opposed to this misconception.

Malcom Gladwell