As I've often written, I love quotes. Ever since I was a pre-teen. Mini-explosions in small strings of words. A novel in a single sentence! I collect lots of quotes and I occasionally publish my favorites in small groups on this website. If you want to see other batches, simply choose the (left side margin) "category" called "quotes." I hope you find these fun, challenging, mind-stretching and sometimes disturbing . . . Confusion is always the most honest response. -Marty Indik A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. -Mencken Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge A cult is a religion with no political power. -Tom Wolfe Conceit is God's gift to little men. -Bruce Barton Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. -E. M. Cioran Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints. -Ralph Waldo Emerson One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. -Bertrand Russell Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. -Francious de la Rochefoucauld Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea. -Crand Briton The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. -Bacon Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. -Bierce I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they're doing. I'm concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that's handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers. -Howard Zinn Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. -Franz Kafka Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. -C. J. Jung People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it. -Aldous Huxley [more . . . ]

I've been finding a lot of new quotes (new to me) these days. Here is another batch of my favorites: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Hanlon's Razor A woman approached a virtuoso piano player after a particularly brilliant performance and said, 'I'd give anything to play like that.' He replied, 'No, you wouldn't.' Attributed to Artur Rubenstein What is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Christopher Hitchens If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on. Terrance McKenna If the minimum wasn't acceptable, it wouldn't be called the minimum. Anon No matter how good she looks, some guy is sick of her shit Anon Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. \Robert Heinlein (through Lazarus Long) America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. Hunter S. Thompson Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? Douglas Adams I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. Voltaire Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. Dr. Seuss If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well enough. Albert Einstein