"The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves."

“When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.”

Source : "Rent-a-Womb Is Where Market Logic Leads" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2009.

“Poor, dear God. Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything, and never ends.”

Source : Idiot's Delight act 2, sc. 2 (1936)

“So, it's not every patient that I see, but I'd say a good 70% to 80% of the patients when they go to bed it's like a stereo is playing at an 11 or 12 and they can't turn it down, at all. So it makes it very hard for their body to down regulate to be able to go to bed at night.”

“A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.”

Source : "One Man's Meat". Book by Elwyn Brooks White, 1942.

“Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.”

“[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.”

“If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it ...”

Source : "If - " st. 2 (1910)

“There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.”