A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Aldous Huxley

But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.

Polly Toynbee

I love change, I need it.

Rod Stewart

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

Simone Weil

If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.

Proverb

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Andy Warhol

We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained.

Maurice Hulst, The Way of the He

If Vice President Al Gore advocated killing rabbits to see if women are pregnant and called it a step forward for science, we'd all think he'd gone 'round the bend. We don't need to do that sort of thing anymore, we'd say. We have better, kinder ways.

Ingrid Newkirk

Without grace beauty is an unabated hook.

Proverb

He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom.

George Orwell

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Victor Hugo

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

Samuel Johnson