"Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning."
Elie Wiesel
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination."
John Keats
"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
Benjamin Disraeli
"A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time."
Michael Crichton
"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly."
Roger Ebert
"Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge."
Isaac Watts
"Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic."
Aldous Huxley
"You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best."
Kate Atkinson
"All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers."
Thomas Swick
"Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure."
Jordan Beem
"You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters called courtrooms, but they only ratify change. They are almost never where change begins, only where it ends up, for most changes travel from the edges to the center."
Rebecca Solnit
"I was never aware of any other option but to question everything."
Noam Chomsky
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people."
Anonymous
"All books are either dreams or swords,You can cut, or you can drug, with words."
Amy Lowell
"There's always more to the story, Catriona,' She replied. 'That's the wonderful thing about stories."
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