If you're trapped in the dream of the Other, you're fucked.

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

Christopher Marlowe

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Socrates

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

Aldous Huxley

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.

John Wooden

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold Glasgow

I wish my life could be like that, knotted up so that even if something broke, the whole thing wouldn't come apart.

Janet Fitch

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

Bertrand Russell

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

Thomas Aquinas

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles -- and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech -- look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

Philip Roth

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

James Taylor

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Clint Eastwood