Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Mason Cooley, City Aphorisms, Ne

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Franz Grillparzer

I'm a writer of faith who worries about the intolerance of religion. I look at the past and fear we haven't learned from it. I believe that humanity is capable of evil as well as great acts of courage and goodness. I have hope. Deep down, I believe in the human spirit, although sometimes that belief is shaken.

Julianna Baggott

Déj? vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

Paulo Coelho

I believe Love is the most courageous act of which a human being is capable. The word courage even stems from the root word heart (coeur). Scientifically speaking, it is quantifiable only by recognition of its quality.

Vanna Bonta

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

Mario Batali

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

Henry David Thoreau

The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

Edwin Louis Cole

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

Johann Most

To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness --is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself. Imagination alone offers me some intimation of what can be.

Andre Breton

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

Macy Gray