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- I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
- George Steiner
- People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
- After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
- William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
- We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
- To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
- Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
- Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
- Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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