Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

In England and America, a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe, it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

Rebecca West, The Thinking Reed

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

John Jay Chapman

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Benjamin Franklin

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.

Garrett Fort

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

Carrie Brownstein

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

Anne Stevenson

Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

William Blake

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

Jerry Saltz

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

Sebastian Horsley

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Doug Gwyn