I thought Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that I've ever read in my life.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Thomas Jefferson

Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child for ever and ever.

Source Unknown

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Don Marquis

A Corrupt is Correct for a Corrupt.

B B Susheel Kumar

You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have topolish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.

Haruki Murakami

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

Kevin Kelly

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Albert J. Nock

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

Timothy Murphy

Serious sport is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie.

Lemony Snicket

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

Gerald Scarfe