Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.

Zina Garrison

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.

William Shakespeare

I just do what I do. I like to make music.

Neil Young

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

Arthur Golden

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

Sarah Sutton

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The number of people who believe a thing has no bearing upon its truth.

Marie Sexton

It comes as no surprise to find [Norman] Mailer embracing [in the book ] a form of Manicheanism, pitting the forces of light and darkness against each other in a permanent stand-off, with humanity as the battlefield. (When asked if Jesus is part of this battle, he responds rather loftily that he thinks it is a distinct possibility.) But it is at points like this that he talks as if all the late-night undergraduate talk sessions on the question of theism had become rolled into one. 'How can we not face up to the fact that if God is All-Powerful, He cannot be All-Good. Or She cannot be All-Good.'Mailer says that questions such as this have bedevilled 'theologians', whereas it would be more accurate to say that such questions, posed by philosophers, have attempted to put theologians out of business. A long exchange on the probability of reincarnation (known to Mailer sometimes as karmic reassignment) manages to fall slightly below the level of those undergraduate talk sessions. The Manichean stand-off leads Mailer, in closing, to speculate on what God might desire politically and to say: 'In different times, the heavens may have been partial to monarchy, to communism, and certainly the Lord was interested in democracy, in capitalism. (As was the Devil!)'I think it was at this point that I decided I would rather remember Mailer as the author of and .

Christopher Hitchens

God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.

Ethel Watts Mumford

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.

William S. Burroughs

All abuse and violence are abominations against humanity!

Timothy Pina

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

John Morley