If you're going to kill someone there isn't much reason to get all worked up about it and angry - you just pull the trigger. Angry discussions beforehand are a waste of time. We need to smile at Novell while we pull the trigger.

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.

Stephen Daldry

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Andy Warhol

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Bruce Weber

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

Frank Crane

All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Sheldon Kopp

Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.

Jane Smiley

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Benjamin Franklin

Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

Francis Bacon

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Dorothy Day

We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords.

J. A. Primo De Rivera

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

H. L. Mencken

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

Oscar Wilde