We live in fortunate times in which we have only the irritant of terrorism instead of world wars to worry about

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.

He doesn't want you to be real, and to think and to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.

Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.

Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'