The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Ambrose Bierce

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

Henry Miller

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

William James

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Euripides

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Meryl Streep

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

John Howe

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Saul Alinsky

Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.

Justin Sane

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

Stephen Jay Gould

The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.

Pius XII Pacelli

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune.

Proverb