To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.

Will Rogers

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

Ethan Hawke

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This was no peck on the lips. This was a real first kiss, a movie-star-knock-her-socks-off-fireworks-light-up-the-sky kind of kiss. A girl could live to be a hundred and never forget that kiss.

Carol Fragale Brill

People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

George Orwell

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I happened to say, it would be terrible if he should not find a speedy opportunity of returning to London, and be confined in so dull a place. JOHNSON: Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. It would not be terrible, though I were to be detained some time here.

Samuel Johnson

I was such an ugly kid - When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up

Rodney Dangerfield

He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.

Thomas Kempis

The stupid part is that he isn't interested in... in getting serious. We get along. We have fun together. For him, that's enough. And it's so stupid for me to get hung up on him.

Jim Butcher

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Lawrence Durrell