Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery.

Samuel Johnson

People live like birds in the woods: When the time comes, each must take flight.

Chinese Proverb

The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses.

Pindar

I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it, it usually does all the work for you.

Ryan Gosling

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

Lena Dunham

IN April 1882 my father died and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

Edward Carpenter

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay.

Rob Walton

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Francis Schaeffer

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Charles de Gaulle

My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.

Glenda Jackson

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Johann von Goethe