This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that if I wake up at 3 in the morning and think of something, I write it down. I can't wait until morning - it'll be gone.

Mary Oliver

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

Imagination decides everything.

Blaise Pascal

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

Hank Aaron

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

Walter Matthau

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren

Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

Lindsey Graham

Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.The pain is an anchor, mooring me

Haruki Murakami

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Horace

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.

Helen Hunt

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Eric Hoffer