Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

Gore Vidal

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

Edward Abbey, Beyond the Wall

Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.

Toba Beta

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

Sidney Greenberg

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

Shia LaBeouf

Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.

Jack Kerouac

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Joseph Brodsky

Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.

Pythagoras

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Ayn Rand

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

April Winchell

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

Anderson Cooper