Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

Ezra Pound

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera

Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

Dr. James Dobson

'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

George Edward Woodberry

He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If they can somehow nurse each other out of this. Not with a wall.

Michael Ondaatje

It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.

Jane Austen

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

Otto Dix

The family is the school of duties... founded on love.

Felix Adler

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

Mae West

But this didn't like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.

Terry Pratchett

Experience is only half of experience

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When Ronald Reagan's career in show business came to an end, he was hired to impersonate, first, a California governor and then an American president who would reduce taxes for his employers, the Southern and Western New Rich, much of whose money came from the defence industries. There is nothing unusual about this arrangement. All recent presidents have had their price-tags.

Gore Vidal, Armageddon? (essay),