There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Ezra Pound

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

George Eliot

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Joni Mitchell

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

If you judge, investigate.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Ronald Reagan

The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.

Dianne Feinstein

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

Stephen King

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Albert Camus

Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Coco Chanel

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

Eddie Vedder