I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know

Imagination decides everything.

Blaise Pascal

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

Jane Smiley

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

Alice S. Rossi

Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

C.S. Lewis

The longer the title, the less important the job.

George McGovern

Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

Barbara Corcoran

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

Bernadine Dohrn

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Keep it simple and keep it real. The more basic we see our connection to God and Spirit, the easier it is to feel like you're a part of it.

Jim Fargiano

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear,???and that these few are alone to be regarded, the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful r

Ralph Waldo Emerson