When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.

Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

Michael Chabon

Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world

Voltaire

speak hard, steal the air.

Anne McCaffrey

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

Albert Einstein

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

Edward Hopper

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

Jimmy Buffett

No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.

Hitopadesa

There is always room at the top.

Daniel Webster

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Mahatma Gandhi

The interpretation of dreams is a great art.

Paracelsus

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

Lewis H. Lapham

What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.

David Plouffe