I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In order to be a perfect member of a flock of sheep, one has to be, foremost, a sheep.

Albert Einstein

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

Kid Rock

Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.

Ed Hays

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Eleanor Roosevelt

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths.

Antonin Artaud

An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.

Oscar Wilde

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

Walter Benjamin

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence

Samuel Johnson

All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure

Theodore Roethke

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Lillian Hellman

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

Jerry Saltz