"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." Herman Melville
"Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism." Louis Pasteur
"If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity." Emile Zola
"...As I walked, a long-forgotten voice came out of my past. Miss Flatto. Miss Flatto, wiggling her finger at my nose and saying, ‘Some day you’ll realize, young man! Some day you’ll realize!’..." Arthur Marx
"The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd." Andre Breton
"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die." Lillian Smith
"Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food." John Dos Passos
"The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops." Sir Robert Helpmann
"If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!" Miles Davis
"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."
"Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain." Pierre Elliott Trudeau
"No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you." Althea Gibson
"There's a normal sadness about hurting people, but I'd rather hurt them a little than hurt myself a lot." Elia Kazanjaglous