"Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others." – Ambrose Bierce

"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for?" – Alice Walker

"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh." – Robert A. Heinlein

"Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance." – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a God." – Jean Rostand.

"I came out to my sister, and she said, Oh my god, you're gay! Are you seeing a psychologist? I answered: No, I'm seeing a schoolteacher." – Bob Smith

"Atheists be like 'we probably live in a computer simulation' like bro you just believe in God except you think he's a nerd." – Xiidra (SpeepyBunny) on Twitter

"[I became a writer] in the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money." – Ferenc Molnar

"The capitalist has no heart, but harpoon him in the pocketbook and you will draw blood." – Bill Haywood

"Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs." – David Ben Gurion

"Precautionary principles sound like a good way of avoiding unknown risks, but the difficulty arises when there are unknown risks in both directions." – Eugene Volokh

"Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself. It's far more interesting to write about others." – Susan Sontag

"The Earth isn’t dying, it’s being killed, and those killing it have names and addresses." – Utah Phillips

"How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one." – Richard Dawkins

"I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." – Frederick Douglass

"Men are the devils of the earth and the animals are its tormented souls." – Arthur Schopenhauer

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

"Perfect valor consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone." – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"When men refer to themselves as 'alpha males', I hear that in the context of software, where alpha versions are unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public."

"If one out of ten was a repeat customer, then the business would survive. To put it another way, it didn't matter if nine out of ten people didn't like the club. Realizing this lifted a weight off