The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson
Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs
The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.
London Sunday Correspondent
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education
Paul Karl Feyerabend
I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer.
Ben Hecht
You hear it said that fathers want their sons to be what they feel they cannot themselves be, but I tell you it also works the other way.
Sherwood Anderson
The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.
Clarence Darrow
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Booth Tarkington
I abandoned the extraterrestrial hypothesis in 1967 when my own field investigations disclosed an astonishing overlap between psychic phenomena and UFOs ... The objects and apparitions do not necessarily originate on another planet and may not even exist as permanent constructions of matter. It is more likely that we see what we want to see and interpret such visions according to our contemporary beliefs. [1]
John Keel
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Stephen King
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.