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- There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
- Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
- 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)
- Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
- Jimmy Breslin
- Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
- Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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