History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.

School is where you go between when your parents can't take you and industry can't take you.

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

That's the trouble with caring about anybody, you begin to feel overprotective. Then you begin to feel crowded.

We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up , out of the dreadfulness of merely living.

Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these genres still hold the audience they were created to amuse and instruct.

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.