Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum.

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.