The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Topographically the country is magnificent -- and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

Henry Miller

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

George Orwell

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

James Thurber

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

Ella Maillart

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Johann von Goethe

Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

Robin Williams

I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

In my room as a kid... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win.

Dustin Hoffman

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

Louis XIV

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Lionel Trilling

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman