Couched Lance Quotes

#1. Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

Sarah Vowell

#2. The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.

Jonathan Kozol

#3. ...the thing ['Bedfellows'] didn't come out as clear as I would have liked, but nothing I write ever does.

E.B. White

#4. I always felt as though, 'If nothing else, I have a successful marriage.'

Willie Aames

#5. You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

Terence McKenna

#7. Money, as it increases, becomes either the master or the slave of ts owner.

Horace

#8. When Buddhists say, "A bodhisattva fears not the result, but only the cause," they mean that we must expend the bulk of our energy planting good roots today, rather than fretting about the plants that are already growing from the roots we planted in the past.

Hsing Yun

#9. In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.

Gail Collins