Facts are too busy being true to worry about how you feel about them.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.

I’d rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end…

It's easier to fall back into the same old patterns of hate and retribution, because at least then we're doing something.

The books in the library were old, rotted, and there was no one left in the world to read them, but Kira made sure that none of them went into the fire. It seemed wrong.

They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones.

Christmas has become a public affirmation of the power and benignity of the state, to which we all make obeisance in the sybolism of the breath test ceremony.

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after

I've never missed anything I've given away.

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

A thousand ills require a thousand cures.

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.