I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

John Stuart Mill

Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.

Anthony Hecht

Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

Andre Dubus III

As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose.

Bhagavad Gita

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napoleon Hill

I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

Sam Raimi

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

Ted Solotaroff

I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by.

Steven Wright

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving -- and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it -- and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

Robert Collier

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

Samuel Johnson

We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

Bernard Baruch

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

Ben Jonson