"We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt."

“Man yields to death; and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1931). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Poems and plays. 1931”

“Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.”

“I've told you a million times, I don't exaggerate.”

Source : "Stelling on Saturday: nobody does it better" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2006.

“That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.”

“She was--I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is--one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them, become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.”

“Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.”

“When my wife and I leave California, I want to have my marriage recognized in Nevada, Arizona, all the way to New York. How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?”

“I hope we have American-topias.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com