When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The truth of the matter was something much more subtle and tremendous than any plain physical miracle could ever be. But never mind that. The important thing was that, when I did see the stars (riotously darting in all directions according to the caprice of their own wild natures, yet in every movement confirming the law), the whole tangled horror that had tormented me finally presented itself to me in its truth and beautiful shape. And I knew that the first, blind stage of my childhood had ended.

Olaf Stapledon

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Bob Dylan

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Mira Nair

Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us.

Charles Dickens

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Will Durant

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Woodrow Wilson

They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.

Georg Buchner

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

Publilius Syrus

I went into this bar and sat down next to a pretty girl. She looked at me and said, Hey, you have two different colored socks on. I said, Yeah, I know, but to me they're the same because I go by thickness.

Steven Wright

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

Loretta Young