...it seems to me that sometimes-or perhaps I might venture most of the time-occurrences have no cause at all. New stars appear and old ones vanish. Short hats become popular again. Things are as they are and do as they please for absolutely no reason at all.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Paul McCartney

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Mark Twain

Successful investing is about having people agree with you ... later.

James Grant

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

Conor Oberst

He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a tower before ten thousand people and tell them that twice two is four.

G.K. Chesterton

Say something in Mandarin, said Tessa, with a smile.Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels andconsonants run together, his voice rising and falling melodically: Nihen piao liang.What did you say? Tessa was curious.I said your hair is coming undone here, he said, and reached outand tucked an escaping curl back behind her ear. Tessa felt the bloodspill hot up into her face, and was glad for the dimness of thecarriage. You have to be careful with it, he said, taking his handback, slowly, his fingers lingering against her cheek.

Cassandra Clare

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Wallace Stevens

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Sir James Goldsmith

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Philip Wylie

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Craig Kilborn

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.

George Gershwin

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Eldridge Cleaver