Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.

Katharine Weber

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

Thomas Carper

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

Rick Derringer

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Jean Giraudoux

The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

George Barr McCutcheon

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

Garth Ennis

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C.S. Lewis

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

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I don't wanta do any Blues or any sad songs.

Bob Livingston

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...

John Maynard Keynes