“ I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“ They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil. Carl R White
“ Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it!There’s… Donald Barthelme
“ Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to wait until the next dry season comes around. Home is where your woman is, that you come b… Cornell Woolrich
“ [T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splint… George Packer
“ Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock t… H.P. Lovecraft
“ It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just. Benjamin Netanyahu
“ His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old. Terry Pratchett
“ His friend laughed. 'You missed your calling, Freddie,' he said. 'You should have been one of the aforementioned clergy. Is this what marriage does to you? One shudders at the very idea. Mary Balogh
“ It is unfortunate that for some, kindness is an unwarranted expenditure, compassion an avoidable weakness, and love an unnecessary gamble. Wayne Gerard Trotman
“ It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death… H. Rider Haggard
“ I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust. Steve Goodier
“ The world has become jaded. Romance has died, some no longer believe in love, and because of this, they suffer. Wayne Gerard Trotman
“ It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us… Raymond Chandler
