When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Angela Carter

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.

Stephen King

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

If you'd have it done, Go: if not, Send

Benjamin Franklin

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

George Harrison

Life sucks, then you die. Then it sucks again.

Tonya Hurley

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.

Joseph Cook

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Mason Cooley

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

David Mamet

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel