"I invented the colors of the vowels!—A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green—I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms..." Arthur Rimbaud
"Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction." Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today." Leonid Ilich Brezhnev
"A gossip is someone who talks to you about others, a bore is someone who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself."
"A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults."
"You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things." Ken Kesey
"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day."
"I'm amazed people read this crap about us—about me most of all." Vladimir Palanuik
"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." Norman Mailer