I plugged my phone in where the blender used to be. I calledsomeone. They went Aaaaahhhh...

How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

Marquis de Sade

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

John Keats

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Woody Allen

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

Cyril Connolly

The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.

Paul Gauguin

This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the sovenier of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams.

Paulo Coelho

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Alphonso Jackson

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

P. J. O'Rourke

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Herbert Simon

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

William Henry Hudson

Virtues, n. pl. Certain abstentions.

Ambrose Bierce

If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

Neil Gaiman