"There is no greater importance in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you."
Norman Mailer
"Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."
Sidney J. Harris
"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men."
Max Beerbohm
"A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation."
Donald Trump
"No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets."
Edward Abbey
"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."
Alfred Korzybski
"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge."
Paul Gauguin
"There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."
Anatole Broyard
"At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years."
Arthur C. Clarke
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."
Andy Warhol
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."
Abraham Maslow
"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."
