If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. Saturday, July 10, 2004 01:45 p.m.

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, 1900 Tuesday, June 1, 2004 06:12 a.m.

The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and summer night
Was like the conscious being of the book.
The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The words were spoken as if there was no book,
Except that the reader leaned above the page,
Wanted to lean, wanted much most to be
The scholar to whom his book is true, to whom
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The house was quiet because it had to be.
The quiet was part of the meaning, part of the mind:
The access of perfection to the page.
And the world was calm. The truth in a calm world,
In which there is no other meaning, itself
Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself
Is the reader leaning late and reading there.
- Wallace Stevens
Monday, April 12, 2004 09:55 a.m.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. - Frank Lloyd Wright

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. - Poul Anderson

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. - Iris Murdoch

Monday, April 5, 2004 06:56 a.m.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. - Shelley Winters

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. - Margaret Halsey

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. - King Whitney Jr. Thursday, April 1, 2004 10:59 a.m.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. - Margaret Thatcher Wednesday, March 3, 2004 05:57 a.m.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. - Peter De Vries Friday, February 27, 2004 05:59 a.m.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. -Oscar Wilde Monday, February 23, 2004 05:24 a.m.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) Friday, February 20, 2004 06:16 a.m.

It is something — it can be everything — to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below. - Wallace Stegner

Toni Morrison: [Writing] stretches you... [and] makes you stay in touch with yourself.... It's like going under water for me, the danger. Yet I'm certain I'm going to come up. Wednesday, February 18, 2004 05:58 a.m.

Art is science made clear. - Jean Cocteau Monday, February 9, 2004 06:16 a.m.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer. -Brendan Behan Monday, February 9, 2004 06:15 a.m.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. - Robert Coover Wednesday, February 4, 2004 06:06 a.m.

"This is the most beautiful place on earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. A houseboat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near the Hoboken waterfront, or even, possibly, for those of a less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio or Rome — there's no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment." - Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire Thursday, January 29, 2004 06:00 a.m.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out. - Anton Chekhov Thursday, January 29, 2004 06:00 a.m.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Theodore Geissel(1904 - 1991) Tuesday, January 27, 2004 06:01 a.m.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. - Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) Tuesday, January 27, 2004 06:00 a.m.

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. - Woody Allen Saturday, January 24, 2004 07:12 a.m.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain Saturday, January 24, 2004 07:11 a.m.

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