I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.
— Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
— Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
What fresh hell is this?
— Dorothy Parker’s stock comment when answering the telephone
Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.
— Warren Buffett
Figure out the absolute least you need to do to implement the idea, do just that, and then polish the hell out of the experience.
— John Gruber
What the hell does marriage have to do with your rights? Get married to whomever you want. Gay. Straight. Black. White. Tell whomever you want. Tell know one. Tell everyone you can. Why should you have to tell the government and why should you be afforded different rights based on who you choose to spend your life with?
Banning gay marriage in California is horrific, but why on earth are we letting the government tell us what we can and can’t do when it comes to a religious or spiritual bond? This should live completely outside the realm of the law.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The great artist is the simplifier.
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Someone who shall remain nameless looked at me and said that I had to go along with whatever the majority votes, because it’s a democracy. I said, ‘No, I don’t think so. That’s tyranny of the majority.’
