Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.

I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.

Christina Ricci

It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.

Susan Sontag

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

Megan Chance

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Hector Hugh Munro

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

Gore Vidal

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Thomas Carlyle

I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it.

Steven Wright

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Aldous Huxley

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

Thomas Jefferson

The cliche is dead poetry.

Gerald Brenan

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Charles Dickens

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

Philip K. Dick