Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

Cory Doctorow

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Edith Sitwell

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

P. J. O'Rourke

Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.

Edward R. Murrow

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Walter Isaacson

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

Moon Unit Zappa

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

Doris Lessing

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

John Redwood

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Thou strange piece of wild nature!

Colley Cibber

I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic.

Sinead O'Connor