We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.

Italo Calvino

The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.

Ali Shariati

She grunted. Nothing unusual? That's right. Well, if you ask me, that's pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.

Orson Scott Card

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.

Louis C. K.

Pornography is the instruction. Rape is the practice, battered women are the practice, and battered children are the practice.

Gloria Steinem

Individualism, as a definition of holding to personal ideals, is classed as obstinacy and anti-social. Inevitably we run point blank into the evils of compromise. When compromise enters our moral fiber, it spreads like a cancerous growth. We think we plan adequate safeguards around areas in which we contemplate yielding our standards, but once we lower the fence and break our strong will to do right, come what may, we expose ourselves to forces that spread beyond control. Compromise always starts on some rather insignificant principle. The dangers of yielding seem negligible and we usually risk those things first where observation and detection by others is difficult. We thus seek to avoid censure and discipline. In a short time we find ourselves trading our principles for false values and doing it in the black market of human relationships. . . .

Ralph W. Hardy

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

Steven Morrissey

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....

Truman Capote

It doesn't matter to me if a man is from Harvard or Sing Sing. We hire the man, not his history.

Henry Ford

A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.

Stephen Richards

Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

Christy Turlington

Quiconque lutte contre des monstres devrait prendre garde, dans le combat, ? ne pas devenir monstre lui-même. Et quant ? celui qui scrute le fond de l'abysse, l'abysse le scrute ? son tour.

Friedrich Nietzsche