The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

Nicholas Boileau

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem.

Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.

George Orwell

We find our own skin more fascinating than any abstract painting.

Michael Lipsey

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

H. L. Mencken

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

Mary Shelley

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Tacitus

Kipling sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilised, are there to guard and feed them.

George Orwell, essay, 1942

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

Ayelet Waldman

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

Sherman Alexie

Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.

Soundarya

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Janis Joplin