Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist – whatever. – Les Paul
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface ones own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. – George Orwell
The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state. – Plato
An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others. – George Soros
Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. – Karen Armstrong
