You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

There's one Baldessari work I genuinely love and would like to own, maybe because of my Midwestern roots and love of driving alone. 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday, 20 January 1963' consists of a grid of 32 small color photographs depicting just what the title says.

Jerry Saltz

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Dan Rather

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Lee Iacocca

I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

Magnus Carlsen

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

G. W. F. Hegel

Mystery is not profoundness.

Charles Caleb Colton

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

Henry David Thoreau

Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

John Gall

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

Madonna Ciccone

Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'

Annie Dillard