The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Rodney Dangerfield

You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.

Marilynne Robinson

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it

Mark Twain

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

William Ellery Channing

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

William Bernbach

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Alastair Campbell

I'm a big fan of Mashable and TechCrunch and other outlets like that, but TechMeme obviously does an amazing job of aggregating.

Gary Vaynerchuk

The grave's a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace.

Andrew Marvell

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

George Bernard Shaw

Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.

Francis Macdonald Cornford

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, "New