What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

John Fogerty

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

Sir Richard Steele

I sometimes thinkHis critical judgement is so exquisiteIt leaves us nothing to admire except his opinion.

Christopher Fry, The Dark is Lig

In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.

Christopher Hitchens

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Lauryn Hill

I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.

Stephen Greenblatt

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Paul Klee

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

Jewel

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Oerter

Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork.

English Proverb

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

George Bernard Shaw

We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us.

Nina LaCour