...because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...

My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

Dan Savage

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

William Shakespeare

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.

William Shakespeare

Only by maintaining positive thoughts, by dispelling doubt and negativity, will you impress your desires upon the universe, making it bend to your will.

Stephen Richards

The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

Eric Hoffer

God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.

J. K. Gressett

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Jean Cocteau

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

P. J. O'Rourke

My life now could not be better.

Charlie Simpson

I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a good idea. One finds that in the history of science almost every problem has been worked out by someone else. This should not discourage anyone from pursuing his own path.

Theodore von Kármán

Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a sun-struck stupor. In the evenings, families gathered on their verandas waiting for the 'southerly buster' - the thunderstorm that would break the heat and leave the air cool enough to allow sleep.

Geraldine Brooks

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson