"Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good."

“Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.”

“Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and--most marvelous of all--went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 60, 1895.

“Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.”

“Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.”

“The turning point really is just knowing you're an imbecile.”

“I got a bit bored of just me and my guitar,”

Source : "Daughter (No 1,116)" by Paul Lester, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2011.

“Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced”

“Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.”