I had not particularly liked the way in which he wrote about literature in , and I was always on my guard if not outright hostile when any tincture of 'deconstruction' or 'postmodernism' was applied to my beloved canon of English writing, but when Edward talked about English literature and quoted from it, he passed the test that I always privately apply: Do you truly this subject and could you bear to live for one moment if it was obliterated?

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Albert Camus

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Kurt Cobain

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Thom Mayne

Anyone who really studies Catholicism deeply is aware of the mystical nature of our faith. Even references to Christ's mystical body has connections to that principle.

Dennis Kucinich

Obliqueness is the curse of the reading class.

Stephen King

The creation of a thousand forest in one acorn.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Muhammad Iqbal

Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven.

Source Unknown

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Lao Tzu

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Carl Gustav Jung

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

Yoko Ono

In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.

Marcia Gay Harden