Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

[Beowolf] is considered an epic because of its long speeches, its digressions, its repetition, and its being required.

Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world.

If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.