Science is not addressed to poets.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

Brigham Young

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

Joseph Joubert

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Cather

The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.

Umberto Eco

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

John Portman

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

Evelyn Waugh

O pray the earth enfold Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust.

Ernest Dowson

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Thomas Sowell

Before eating, always take a little time to thank the food.

American Indian Proverb, Arapaho

One of the objections I have against Campbell's Astounding was that there was too little love in it. It was a very loveless magazine. They never took enough account of the feeling that is always in SF.

Brian Aldiss

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Josef Stalin

It took place in the midnight in the University's Great Hall, in a welter of incense, candlesticks, runic inscriptions and magic circles, none of which was strictly necessary but which made the wizards feel better.

Terry Pratchett