Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful, and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous, and loathed because they impose slavery

For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.

Bob Beauprez

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

Christopher Hitchens

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

John Corry

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Joseph Brodsky

My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence.

Benjamin Franklin

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

Fran Lebowitz

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

I have loved him too much not to hate

Jean Racine

You could rattle the stars. You could do anything, if you only dared. And deep down, you know it too, and that’s what scares you the most

Sarah J. Maas

I used to look like a deer in headlights on the red carpet. You step out of the car and it's bedlam. Everyone's got crazy eyes.

Emily Blunt

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.

Jane Mayer

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust