Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Mark Twain

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own).

George Saunders

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

Marc Andreessen

Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants.

Toby Jones

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

Voltaire

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.

Ron Brown

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Mao Zedong

Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.

Wilhelm Reich

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Eric Hoffer