A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.

God is definitely out of the closet.

Marianne Williamson

It's not that I don't have opinions, rather that I'm paid not to think aloud.

Yitzhak Navon

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

James Madison

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

James Arthur Baldwin

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Jean-Luc Godard

If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm not a fighter, but I would love to be a boxer because I love the courage and toughness. I mean, there can be nothing more terrifying than walking into an arena and looking at Mike Tyson in the ring.

Mark McGrath

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Willa Cather

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

Harold Bloom

I like to smile when its natural. I'm not mad or anything. That's my style.

Jesse McCartney

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given, and transmitted from the past.

Karl Marx, Letter to Joseph Wede

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Murray Kempton