Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.

Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.

My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.

A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.

I think people in Great Britain are a bit jaded sometimes.

I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it.

'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!

When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

I am a grafter.

I used to go out with someone who was a really great diver, and we used to go to all the great dive spots all over the globe - although I would spend most of my time crying because I was often too scared to go into the water. But once I was in the water, I loved it.

Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent.

The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.

The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making.

Enough is enough

I am a normal guy.

Over the years, I've heard a lot of people who don't feel that they have it in them to do anything creative. They shrug and claim that they 'have no talent.' They say things like, 'Don't quit your day job' or 'Leave it to the professionals.' In the steampunk subculture, I don't hear those things.

The wilderness provides an environment for a child's inner life to develop because it requires him to be constantly aware of his surroundings.

The actions of the University in my case make it abundantly clear that the Administration's rhetoric about Harvard's desire to attract and retain the most distinguished women in the world is empty.

I love pregnancy and the bump and the whole thing.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Because of economics, you have to feed the demographics that are buying your product. So, as Asia becomes a much more economic influence on the products that are being made from America, I think people have to be sensitive.

The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.

There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.