That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

Jane Goodall

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Anthony Burgess, You've Had Your

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Henry James

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship

Wendell Phillips

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

Roland Barthes

A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

Walter Winchell

I haven't got a lot of patience.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Wislawa Szymborska

Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life. But of course, like autumn, it doesn't last.

C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lew

The biggest problem with politics or running for the governor

Lance Armstrong, interview with

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Paul Auster

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

David R. Brower