Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Martin Mull

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and provide for it.

Patrick Henry

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

T. S. Eliot

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

Percy Ross

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

John Green

For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator.

Dwain K. White Sr.

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

Russell Baker

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Camus

Inequality makes everyone unhappy, the poor most of all, and that is well within the remit of the state. More money gives less extra happiness the richer we get, yet we are addicted to earning and spending more every year.

Polly Toynbee

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

Dave Matthews