Man's unhappiness as I construe comes of his greatness, it is because there is an Infinite in him which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas Carlyle
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want.
Donald Rumsfeld
Every year August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.
Henry Rollins
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself, if all it does is maintain itself then living is only not dying.
Simone de Beauvoir
The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.
William Blake
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods There is a rapture on the lonely shore There is society where none intrudes By the deep sea and music in its roar: I love not man the less but Nature more.
Lord Byron
We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Milton Friedman
