Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

V. S. Naipaul

For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.

Karl Liebknecht

America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Jesse Jackson

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Joseph Addison

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

David Hare

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

Hank Aaron

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Bill Anderson

I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me.

Elizabeth Edwards

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

Walter Pater

I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists -- there's no room for democracy in making film.

Don Alan Pennebaker

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

Henry David Thoreau