Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

Honore de Balzac

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Victor Hugo

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Harold Rosenberg

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.

Neil Gaiman

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers

Jean Baudrillard

Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.

Albert Einstein

I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.?

Ernest Hemingway

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Erma Bombeck

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition; for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable; they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.

Cyril Connolly

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

Meir Kahane

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

Chris Christie

I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.

Kate Smith