We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Leonard Cohen

Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

There are three kinds of lies: lies, d--n lies, and statistics.

Mark Twain

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

Judy Collins

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Golda Meir

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

Garth Stein

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes

Orson Scott Card

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

There comes a time when every good woman has to throw away her favorite book and find another one that has a captivating ending, more intriguing characters and a plot that would actually challenge her mind.

Shannon L. Alder

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

Ansel Adams

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

Herbert Read