Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Any sufficiently advanced form of magick will appear indistinguishable from science.

Peter J. Carroll

To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.

W. Ian Thomas

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Johann von Goethe

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

Charles Baudelaire

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

Marcel Proust

I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.

Hollace M. Metzger

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

Herman Hesse

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office

Abraham Lincoln

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.

Cab Calloway

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

Kevin Kelly

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

Christopher Atkins