You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

One of the more positive aspects of our existence in Oceania is that truth is flexible and negotiable, despite attempts by some of us to impose political, religious, and other forms of absolutionism. Versions of truth may be accepted for particular purposes and moments, only to be reversed when circumstances demand other versions; and we often accede to things just to stop being bombarded, and then go ahead and do what we want to do anyway.

Epeli Hau'ofa

My dad was diagnosed with cancer, so we ended up burying him a year to the day that he was diagnosed.

Seann William Scott

Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

Jean Baudrillard

If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely.

Valerie Tripp

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder censorship, we call it concern for commercial viability.

David Mamet

In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

Barbara Hurd

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Susan Sontag

A satellite has no conscience.

Edward R. Murrow

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

Walter Annenberg

When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.

Rosamund Lupton

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

George Bernard Shaw

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

Frank Murkowski