We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
- H. L. Mencken

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
- John le Carre

A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
- Jane Caminos

There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
- Norman Mailer

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
- Edward Abbey

Pigs on the Wing (Part Two) (Waters) 1:27

You know that I care what happens to you,
And I know that you care for me.
So I don't feel alone,
Or the weight of the stone,
Now that I've found somewhere safe
To bury my bone.
And any fool knows a dog needs a home,
A shelter from pigs on the wing.

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
- Nicholas Chamfort

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Abraham Lincoln

No human thing is of serious importance.
- Plato

Memorium

In Memorium of 09/11 - Peace, Rev. Mike

We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
- W. H. Auden

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
- Carl Jung

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
- Edwin Schlossberg

We're actors - we're the opposite of people.
- Tom Stoppard

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
- Albert Camus

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
- H. P. Lovecraft

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
- Thomas Berger