Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

To live is to war with trolls.

Henrik Ibsen

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race.

Andrew Motion

The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Francis Bacon

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

Jim Garrison

I believe we all agree that, for the health of Kansas, nothing is more important than education.

Kathleen Sebelius

Why kill time when one can employ it.

Proverb

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Mahatma Gandhi

Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of.

Walter Benjamin

Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.

Camille Anna Paglia, From a comm

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

Anon.

I cannot imagine a man without thought; he would be a stone or an animal.

Blaise Pascal