When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

The beautiful part about killing someone with an icicle is the murder weapon melts and then evaporates. And your assassination can be fruit flavored!?

Jarod Kintz

No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.

Llewelyn Powys

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

J. B. Yeats, Letters to His Son,

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Jack Kerouac

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

Mahatma Gandhi

I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.

Gunter Grass

The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure.

Sydney Pollack

And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

Come live with me, and be my love,And we will some new pleasures proveOf golden sands, and crystal brooks,With silken lines, and silver hooks.

John Donne, "The Bait"

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.

Ambrose Bierce

Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book

John Green