Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

Hedy Lamarr

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Voltaire

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Oscar Wilde

It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.

Samuel Johnson

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

Frank Press

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Alvin Ailey

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Mark Strand

Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.

Alasdair Gray

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Kirsten Zambucka

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

Christine Feehan

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Hannah Arendt