The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself

Thomas Carlyle

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Edward Abbey

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

Robin Tunney

Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk -- they are all part of the curriculum.

Michel de Montaigne

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

Russell Hoban

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

Aldo Leopold

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Douglas Trumbull

We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

Al D'Amato

But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.

Audre Lorde

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

Will Rogers

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet