What I

You cannot see the mountain near

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

George Bancroft

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.

Anton Chekhov

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can

Tom Clancy, Interview, "Time", J

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

Rupert Holmes

Real life seems to have no plots.

Ivy Compton Burnett

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- poetry. All the rest is a lie --except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.

Stephane Mallarme

It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.

J. Michael Straczynski

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Alexander Woollcott

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Joan Didion

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.

Emma Goldman