Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in theapartment somewhere.

Steven Wright

Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.

Honore de Balzac

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

Oscar Wilde

Look up and not down;Look forward and not back;Look out and not in;Lend a Hand.

Edward Everett Hale

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

Spalding Gray

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

Dorothy Malone

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Ludwig von Mises

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Carl Gustav Jung

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Stephen King

I may have lost my ability to travel, but I’ve gained the ability to go to sleep at night.

Edward Snowden

I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

Sheryl Sandberg

Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

John Podhoretz