All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

With While You Were Sleeping, it was so much fun and such a Cinderella story, that I didn't want to do another romantic comedy. I wanted to do the opposite.

Bill Pullman

Death is a very important part of life.

GG Allin

Jem and Will had set up camp on one of the long tables in the back of the library, ostensibly to help advise her, but more likely, it seemed, to mock and be amused by her consternation. You point your feet out too much when you walk, Will went on. He was busy polishing an apple on his shirtfront, and appeared not to notice Tessa glaring at him. Camille walks delicately. Like a faun in the woods. Not like a duck. I do not walk like a duck. I like ducks, Jem observed diplomatically. Especially the ones in Hyde Park. He glanced sideways at Will; both boys were sitting on the edge of the high table, their legs dangling over the side. Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks? They ate it too, Will reminisced. Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

Cassandra Clare

We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life. We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics.

Stephen Hawking

Modern cosmetic surgeons have a direct financial interest in a social role for women that requires them to feel ugly. They do not simply advertise for a share of a market that already exists: Their advertisements create new markets. It is a boom industry because it is influentially placed to create its own demand through the pairing of text with ads in women's magazines. The industry takes out ads and gets coverage; women get cut open. They pay their money and they takes their chances. As surgeons grow richer, they are able to command larger and brighter ad spaces.

Naomi Wolf

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

A. A. Milne

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Bennett Cerf

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

James Madison

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith, "London

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

Rumi

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth,To the eternal sun, I render backThese atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

Friedrich von Schiller, Maid of