We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.

Aristotle

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

Rip Torn

I've always wanted to be a mom.

Holly Madison

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

Ernest Hemingway

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Virgil

Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times.

John Morley

Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity. If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head. If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick...

Steven Wright

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

Billy Sunday

Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty

Mahatma Gandhi

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Jane Austen

Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer.

Camille Paglia

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Terry Pratchett