The virtue of paganism was strength the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

Oscar Wilde

'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

John Selden

Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.

African Proverb

A young man when he enters society must be preserved from vanity rather than from sensibility; he succumbs rather to the tastes of others than to his own, and self-love is responsible for more libertines than love. Self-love makes more libertines than love.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

Dick Bruna

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Vladimir Nabokov

Doing a little work around the house. I put fake brick wallpaper over a real brick wall, just so I'd be the only one who knew. People come over and I'm gonna say, Go ahead, touch it...it feels real.

Steven Wright

If Darwin's theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present

George Eliot

I never realized I could love people as much as I do now.

George Lopez

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Henry Rollins

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Horace Greeley

How is it then that your theologians drivel like people in their second childhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.