I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Small crimes always precedes great ones.

Jean Racine

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

W. H. Auden

God she hated the dance. A blow to the cheek one minute and discussing a romantic getaway the next. It was the one step forward, two steps back waltz. She wanted to scream. Sitting on the side of the bed, Claire allowed herself tears and swallowed

Aleatha Romig

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.

Roger Scruton

But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play.

Buddy Rich

The Shia fundamentalists in Iran lowered the age of consent to nine, perhaps in admiring emulation of the age of the youngest wife of the Prophet Muhammed.

Christopher Hitchens

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

William Shakespeare

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

David Duchovny

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Thomas A. Bennett

Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

Christina Aguilera

It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.

Margaret Atwood

The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.

Pau (Pablo) Casals