To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Willa Cather

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Neil Armstrong

Once you had read the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, you knew that everyday life was psychopathology.

Saul Bellow

The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.

Edward Dyson

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other mens labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same nameliberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable namesliberty and tyranny.

Abraham Lincoln

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

Duane Michals

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

Abigail Breslin

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Euripides

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

Edward Dahlberg

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Hope Edelman

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Thomas Jefferson

What is more immoral than war?

Marquis de Sade