The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Thomas Traherne

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

C.S. Lewis

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Sir Winston Churchill

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Arthur Miller

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

Christian Nevell Bovee

Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would be no fruition.

Florida Scott Maxwell

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

Bob Odenkirk

Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

Benjamin Franklin

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

Fiona Apple

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

C. Wright Mills

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

John Drinkwater