And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its Boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless Alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion.

If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate.

Bobby Nichols

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Jim Morrison

Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.

Lincoln Steffens

The balance between faith and reason is for the determination of each individual, and of the people as a whole, not of unauthorized government officials uttering impious humbug as they arbitrarily try to define that balance.

Conrad Black

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Bertrand Russell

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.

Ogden Nash

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

Anne Frank

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Truths are as much a matter of questions as answers.

Ozzie Zehner

I dream, therefore I exist.

J. August Strindberg

A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.

Stephen Richards