I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Follow the best way of life you possibly can, and habit will make this way suitable and pleasant to you.

Leo Tolstoy

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

Walter Salles

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Camille Anna Paglia

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.

Pablo Picasso

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.

Lord Byron

People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one.

Holly Black

In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

Don DeLillo

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Alan Lakein

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

Robert Lanza

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Elvis Presley