Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely.

DW is based on a slew of old myths, which reach their most 'refined' form in Hindu mythology, which in turn of course derived from the original Star Trek episode 'Planet of Wobbly Rocks where the Security Guard Got Shot'.

Terry Pratchett

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

Herbie Hancock

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

Adam Lambert

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

Sylvia Plath

Readers of the twenty-first chapter must decide for themselves whether it enhances the book they presumably know or is really a discardable limb. I meant the book to end in this way, but my aesthetic judgement may have been faulty. Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. 'Quod scripsi scripsi' said Pontius Pilate when he made Jesus Christ the King of the Jews. 'What I have written I have Written.' We can destroy what we have written but we cannot unwrite it. I leave what I wrote with what Dr. Johnson called frigid indifference to the judgement of that .00000001 of the American population which cares about such things. Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.

Anthony Burgess, November, 1986

The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.

Franklin Field

Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.

Clarence H. Hincks

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Desiderius Erasmus

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

George Eliot

It is better to live rich, than to die rich.

Samuel Johnson

Building an empire...one letter in front of the other.

Coco J. Ginger

The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.

Isak Dinesen