If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit the loss of the empire of the United States and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

James Hillman

In day-to-day commerce, television is not so much interested in the business of communications as in the business of delivering audiences to advertisers. People are the merchandise, not the shows. The shows are merely the bait.

Les Brown

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

Robert Hughes

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

Chuck Palahniuk

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

L. Ron Hubbard

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

Albert Camus

Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

Will Rogers

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Arthur C. Clarke

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

Wiz Khalifa

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

Neil Gaiman