They want me to immolate myself, and I sincerely believe that for some of them, when they see bad news from Iraq, the reaction is simply 'This will make Hitchens look bad!' I've been trying to avoid solipsism, but I've come to believe there are such people.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

But I like not these great successes of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Herodotus

I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.

Abe Lemons

Those who cling to the untrue doctrine that violence never settles anything would be advised to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Nations and peoples who forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

Robert A. Heinlein

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

Gordon Ramsay

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Henry Ward Beecher

That was the burden,' she mused, 'laid on me in the cradle; murmured by waves; breathed by restless elm trees; crooned by singing women; what we must rememeber; what we would forget.

Virginia Woolf

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

Daniel H. Wilson

Every vice has its excuse ready.

Publilius Syrus

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, part 2

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

George Washington Carver

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Gloria Steinem