The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world.

Debt is the worst poverty.

Thomas Fuller

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

Tarsem Singh

Trees that grow in smoggy cities are needed to make carbonpaper.

Steven Wright

The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.

Edgar Quinet

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

Wallace Shawn

Philosophy offers the rather cold consolation that perhaps we and our planet do not actually exist; religion presents the contradictory and scarcely more comforting thought that we exist but that we cannot hope to get anywhere until we cease to exist. Alcohol, in attempting to resolve the contradiction, produces vivid patterns of Truth which vanish like snow in the morning sun and cannot be recalled; the revelations of poetry are as wonderful as a comet in the skies -- and as mysterious. Love, which was once believed to contain the Answer, we now know to be nothing more than an inherited behavior pattern.

James Thurber

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

Edmond de Goncourt

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Mary Kay Ash

I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!

Hannah Cowley

Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.

Plato

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

Lena Dunham

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

Cory Doctorow