Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Norman Mailer

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

Eknath Easwaran

The dog is the god of frolic.

Henry Ward Beecher

I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.

Edgar Allan Poe

Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.

Steven Rattner

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai Stevenson, "Time", retort

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

A.E. Housman

Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts? Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity.

Mark Twain

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Mark Rutherford

And let there be light,Let there be light where it has long gone overdue.Let there be light in the coldest of places,Let there be light in the darkest of secrets,Let there be light in your hope.Let there be light in your heart,for light is but the only thing for me to give you.Let there be light...

Rosen Topuzov

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

Ovid

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

Anna Sui