Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

David Cronenberg

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

I love it when someone insults me. That means that I don't have to be nice anymore.

Billy Idol

And I think what people in New Jersey have gotten to know about me over the last decade that I've been in public life is what you see is what you get. And I'm no different when I'm sitting with you than I am when I'm at home or anyplace else.

Chris Christie

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Og Mandino

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

James Joyce

i had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry

Megan Boyle

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

Mignon McLaughlin

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it.

Donald Downes

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature.

Sappho