For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. Sallust Roman historian & politician (86 BC - 34 BC) What a beautiful morning. John Hancock, to Sam Adams at the Battle of Lexington Getting old is not for sissies. Bette Davis US movie actress (1908 - 1989) Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998 Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New York Times, May 8, 1974 English suspense novelist (1931 - ) We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive. John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981 Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth. Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980 US actor (1936 - ) There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. Somerset Maugham, The New York Times Book Review, September 30, 1984 America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. Vincent Canby, The New York Times, November 11, 1984 Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken US poet (1874 - 1963) |