They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Max Eastman

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

Samuel Johnson

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.

Chuck Palahniuk

I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Jane Austen

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises -- of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive.

Eugene Ionesco

It is the newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Wilbur F. Storey

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Marilyn Monroe

A hard fall means a high bounce... if you're made of the right material.

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