Copyright

A keen sense of copyright is my nearest approach to an emotion.
--Edith Wharton

Economy

Something has gone terribly wrong when the biggest threat to our American economy is the American Congress.
--Senator Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.)

Secret

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
--James Taylor

Desire

What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like?
--Alan Watts

Examples

I am forever monitoring myself for traces of folly, insensitivity, arrogance, false humility, cruelty, stupidity, immaturity and, guess what, I keep finding examples.
--Phillip Lopate

Thought

Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It's like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.
--C.S. Lewis

Hours

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
--William Blake

The Internet

Lonely people have a natural affinity for the Internet. It's always there waiting, patient, flexible, suitable for every mood.
--Roger Ebert

Medium

The medium is the message.
--Marshall McLuhan

The medium is the metaphor.
--Neil Postman

The dominant medium of every age defines the way humans expect the world to be.
--Scott Johnson

Reality

In any relationship, there is one inescapable reality: To love anything is to risk loss.
--Suzanne Clothier

Quiet

The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration--it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done.
--Tim Kreider

Two Kinds

Among highly intelligent people, there are two kinds of minds, the sharp and the soft. We expect smart people to have minds like swords, made to fight and slash and slay. Soft smart minds, though, are of another, rarer kind. They absorb great quantities of data and opinion, often silently, even sluggishly, and turn them around slowly until a solution appears. Darwin is probably the best instance of the soft style in science history.
--Adam Gopnick

Dark Side

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
--Mark Twain

Reality

Anyone who thinks that there is not a dramatic change in weather patterns is denying reality. We have a new reality, and old infrastructures and old systems.
--Governor Andrew Cuomo

Enjoy

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
--Bertrand Russell

Things

I've simply concluded that we've lost our minds. There is no other way to explain what we, as a civilization (word used in the descriptive sense only), are doing to ourselves. We've become so enamored with our brain's capacity for creating things, that we've given it over totally to do nothing else--to our own demise. So smitten with ourselves, to the point of intoxication.
--Ivermarkt Pasadena

Plausible

Religious supernatural beliefs are irrational, but emotionally plausible and satisfying. That's why they're so believable, despite at the same time being rationally implausible.
--Jared Diamond

Hard Choices

If it's a hard decision, then there's always lots to be said on both sides, so either choice is likely to be good in its way. Hard choices are always unimportant.
--Albert Bregman

Capitalism

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
--Bertrand Russell