No man can bear to live with a woman who speaks nothing but the truth to him.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Henry David Thoreau

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Steven Pinker

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

By losing your goal, you have lost your way.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I can, therefore I am.

Simone Weil

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Andrea Dworkin

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

G. K. Chesterton

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

Gertrude Stein

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

Alexander Pope

Try to eliminate the word SHOULD from your vocabulary. And try doing so without replacing it with OUGHT or YOU BETTER.

Source Unknown

Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

Thom Yorke