People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy -- and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Martin Mull

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Julian S. Huxley

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Gertrude Stein

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

Lech Walesa

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Lou Reed

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

James MacGregor Burns

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

Henry Miller

So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. One thinks of the painstaking, cloud-dispelling labor of British scientists from Isaac Newton to Joseph Priestley to Charles Darwin to Ernest Rutherford to Alan Turing and Francis Crick, much of it built upon the shoulders of Galileo and Copernicus, only to see it casually slandered by a moral and intellectual weakling from the usurping House of Hanover. An awful embarrassment awaits the British if they do not declare for a republic based on verifiable laws and principles, both political and scientific.

Christopher Hitchens

Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

William Shakespeare

She was not a women likely to settle for equality when sex gave her an advantage.

Anthony Delano