I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

Carl Schurz

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

Abraham Zapruder

If the devil were to offer me a resurgence of what is commonly called virility, I'd decline. Just keep my liver and lungs in good working order, I'd reply, so I can go on drinking and smoking!

Luis Bunuel

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Arthur Rimbaud

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Anthony Sampson

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

Henrik Ibsen

The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book

Walt Whitman

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

George Vaillant

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

Ian Mcewan

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Edith Sitwell

Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.

Albert Einstein

When I looked into her eyes, I saw an invisible spirit of something that I already loved.

Anthony Kiedis