Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Croatia is an amazing place.

Jean Reno

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

Martin Amis

They are the books, the arts, the academes,That show, contain and nourish all the world.

William Shakespeare

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Mark Twain

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

Billy Sunday

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorships in a nutshell.

George Bernard Shaw, Preface to

It's a very vulgar, arithmetical, pragmatic way of arguing anyway. If you do that, then get the facts and figures wrong, well then you're really fucked. You're fucked twice. --Christopher Hitchens, May 2002

Christopher Hitchens

Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.

Thomas S. Monson

If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be.

E. Stanley Jones

Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.

Denis Diderot

These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what we are.

Terry Pratchett

I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, 'What are you?'

Grace Hopper