When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

Neil Gaiman

Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.

Giacomo Casanova

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Henry James

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance

Aldous Huxley

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

Jonathan Davis

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams.

Pico Iyer

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

Jerry Rubin

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

Dr. Seuss

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

Thomas Jefferson

When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision. Always I reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.

David Hume

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Henry Lawson