Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

One should not have to live in the dark.

Vishal

Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.

Mary Caroline Richards

Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.

John Dewey

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Natalie Clifford Barney

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Rush Limbaugh

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

Samuel Beckett

He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

Mark Helprin

It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing, Umbopa, that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross; save a mountain and a a desert of which you are spared the knowledge, if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or to lose it as Providence may order.

H. Rider Haggard

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Hildegard Knef

Prudence and justice tell me that in electricity and steam there is more love for man than in chastity and abstinence from meat.

Anton Chekhov

It's everyone's destiny to be glooped at some point in their life.

Anthony Stewart Head

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld