"He whom many fear, has himself many to fear."

“What is sanity, after all, except the control of madness?”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.95, Feminist Press at CUNY

“The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible! Nita gulped for control as she remembered Fred's word of just this morning, an eternity ago. And this was what being a wizard was about. Keeping terrible things from happening, even when it hurts. Not just power, or control of what ordinary people couldn't control, or delight in being able to make strange things happen. Those were the side effects- not the reason, the purpose.”

“Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism.... I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.”

“Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.”

“Everyone drinks more during a recession; they want to forget.”

Source : "Madonna loves Christian Audigier's label, but will we?" by Alice Fisher, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2009.

“The art world loves to throw things out and bring new things in. There's always this new circle of artists entering every five years.”

“After an earthquake in Los Angeles - The earth in LA moved more in one hour than Benoit Benjamin did all last season with the Clippers.”

“People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.”