I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Bob Dylan

All colors will agree in the dark.

Francis Bacon

If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear

Benjamin Franklin

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Wayne Dyer

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

John Grisham

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

George Allen, Sr.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

Samuel Johnson

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Lyndon B. Johnson

Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?

Mahatma Gandhi

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

Carl Gustav Jung

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Joseph Addison

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

John Sununu