It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

Allen Ginsberg

The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state.

Albert Einstein

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

Jean Baudrillard

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

I'm famous. That's my job.

Jerry Rubin

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Lucretius

Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

James M. Baldwin

Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.

Guillaume Musso

...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

Mark Haddon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Goodne

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing.

Jeremy Renner

The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.

Michel de Montaigne