Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

wasn't interested in meeting the kind of women who would come to one of those places looking for the kind of man who hoped to meet a woman there.

Orson Scott Card

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

Joe Barton

Love has different shades. Like the way I loved Cassia when I thought she'd never love me. The way I loved her on the Hill. The way I love her now that she came into the canyon for me. It's different. Deeper. I thought I loved her and wanted her before, but as we walk through the canyon together I realize this could be more than a new shade. A whole new color.

Ally Condie

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Friedrich August von Hayek

And after all, what is a lie?

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Don

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

Miguel de Cervantes

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

Henry David Thoreau

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the

No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.

Robert A. Heinlein

I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.

Gore Vidal

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

Willie Mays