A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It's not easy once you're out of the habit.

I am against government by crony.

Harold L. Ickes

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

James A. Michener

All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and thenI can turn the world upside down.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Johann von Goethe

The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.

Kabbalah

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Alexander Graham Bell

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I've just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don't know what put that bug in me at a young age.

Holly Madison

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

Hilaire Belloc

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Charles Bukowski

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.

Toni Morrison

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

Camille Paglia