I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

Every intelligent being, whether it breathes or not, coughs nervously at some time in its life.

Terry Pratchett

If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play ? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber ?... Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage ? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor to go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.

Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise o

Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Source Unknown

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

John Ciardi

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

Willie Nelson

In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.

Thomas Szasz

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violen trevolution inevitable.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

Paul Hornung

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

Larry Ellison

It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.

William Golding

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.

Sir Winston Churchill