For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

Henry Miller

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

David Lloyd George

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.

Delmore Schwartz

If everyone fought only for his own convictions, there would be no wars.

Leo Tolstoy

Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.

Sir Philip Sidney

Love is a myth, Grandfather Trout said. Like summer. What? In winter, Grandfather Trout said, summer is a myth. A report, a rumor. Not to be believed in. Get it? Love is a myth. So is summer.

John Crowley

Philanthropy is. . . greatly overrated. A pain in the gut is not sympathy for the underprivileged, but the result of eating a green apple; the philanthropist gives to ease his own pain.

Henry David Thoreau

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.

John Podhoretz

Allah doesn't need me, I need Allah.

Mike Tyson

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.

Albert Einstein

A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

Arthur Baer