I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Samuel Johnson

I can't not put humor in a book.

Albert Brooks

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Tom Lantos

We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.Then it melts.The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

A. N. Wilson

Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.

Kate Moss

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

Ellen Key

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

Virginia Woolf

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

William Penn

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

Charles Dickens

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

Mercedes McCambridge

Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Wallace Stevens