He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Renee Fleming

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Samuel Johnson

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

Chris Hughes

The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.

Cassandra Clare

Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off.

Ray Bradbury

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

King George V

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

Walter Lippmann

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Jean Anouilh Ardele

It's hard as hell to hold onto your dignity when the risen sun is too bright in your losing eyes, and that's what I was thinking about as we hunted for bad guys through the ruins of a city that didn't exist.

John Green

Man will not live without answers to his questions.

Hans J. Morgenthau

Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

Karl Marx

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery