If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.

Richard P. Feynman

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

Antonia Fraser

Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.

Godfrey Reggio

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

J.K. Rowling

To win in this country these days you have got to campaign down to a thirteen year-old's level of mental development .

Willie Brown

I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me.

Rafael Palmeiro

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

Tom Vilsack

For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me. Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness. The bond of a common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom. A fraternal melancholy! For both I and Bartleby were sons of Adam. I remembered the bright silks and sparkling faces I had seen that day, in gala trim, swanlike sailing down the Mississippi of Broadway; and I contrasted them with the pallid copyist, and thought to myself, Ah, happiness courts the light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there is none.

Herman Melville, Bartleby the Sc

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G. K. Chesterton

Sane is rich and powerful; Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor put in cages.

Hunter S. Thompson