Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Laurence Sterne

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.

Djuna Barnes

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

Stephen King

It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.

Clare Boothe Luce

If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Charles Montesquieu

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Benjamin Disraeli

Elphaba, where I'm from, we believe all sorts of things that aren't true. We call it--- history.

Winnie Holzman, Wicked (the musi

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Simone de Beauvoir

I think people are sick and tired of all the abuse songs, and drug addiction, we want to bring to world a big fat smile.

Steve Brown

To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place.

Edmond Haracourt

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Susan Sontag

When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

Miguel de Cervantes