To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be

She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She'd remain outside the public sector. She'd be an anarchist, she'd travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be totally irrational. She'd fall in love with a totally inappropriate person. She'd really work on it, but abandon would be involved as well. She'd have different names, a.k.a. Snake, a.k.a. Snow - no that was juvenile. She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.

Joy Williams

Should he ever write an autobiography, he'd call it The Life and Death of a Male Body.

Philip Roth

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

George Santayana

Go away, I'm all right!

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.

Voltaire

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

Raymond Holliwell

Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness.

Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

William E. Gladstone

I have a theory that as long as you have one good friend, one real friend, you can get through anything.

Dana Reinhardt

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Lord Mansfield

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

Mark Twain

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.

Theophile Gautier