Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.

Umberto Eco

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

Ann Patchett

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

Andre Rieu

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

Gunther Grass

I dont write books so that you can be fascinated with me. I write them so you can be fascinated with YOU!

Steve Maraboli

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say infinitely when you mean very; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

C.S. Lewis

So many people die young. I'm hoping that's unintended.

James Dye

The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

Daniel D. Palmer

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

Sadaharu Oh

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

Herbie Hancock

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

Joan Rivers

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

George Will