History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.

Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.

If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.

The world is full of marvels, if you're willing to travel far enough to see them.

What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them.

Captures the reader with true magic.

Some men were nothing but overgrown boys who never got over the "fun" of teasing girls, just to get noticed

It's not enough to be born free; I have to live my freedom!

They memorize everything and learn... nothing.

The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

People give up the earth for beauty.

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure

I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.

If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.

We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.