Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

Ralph Hodgson

Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in -Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.

Cassandra Clare

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Thomas Paine

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.

Sophocles

To me the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.

Truman Capote

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.

Eric Hoffer

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

Wilson Greatbatch

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

Christie Hefner

The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.

Imamu Amiri Baraka Jones

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Mira Nair

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

George W. Bush

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky