"Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous."

“It is indeed impossible to describe reality 'in itself', but that does not mean that our lives are answerable to nothing but our own conventions and commitments. They are answerable to a way of things that transcends the reach of our conceptual schemes.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.”

“I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.”

“Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press.”

“If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.”

“An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”

Source : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1957). “How to Enjoy Work and Get More Fun Out of Life”

“I hate yoga so much. Like, if yoga was a person, I'd stab them.”

Source : "Being Precious: Gabourey Sidibe" by Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 7, 2010.

“The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.”