Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Jean Paul Sartre

Thats not a bad word, hate and war are bad words, fuck isnt.

Judy Blume

Attitude is everything.

Diane von Furstenberg

Conflict between science and religion a dangerous foe.

Henry Norris Russell

A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

H. Stanley Judd

If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

Donald Trump

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

Amos Bronson Alcott

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Pat Robertson

Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and

Joseph Addison

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Lascelles Abercrombie

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

Camille Paglia