It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends.

Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.

Kathy Acker

If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.

Wilson Mizner

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

Ian St. John

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

William Shakespeare

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

Grazia Deledda

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Hugo Ball

Why does truth carry such a dreadful face? Why does subjugation carry such a happy mask? It becomes sad when people understand that they can lead a better life as long as they bow their heads, ignoring the truth.

Lionel Suggs

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Samuel Johnson

Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.

Crand Briton

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

Dick Wolf

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

E. Joseph Cossman

The better you look, the more you see.

Bret Easton Ellis