Words & Letters“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” ― Allen Saunders
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.” ― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
“That’s one of the great things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 different reasons.”
― Dave Grohl
“If a man with a dog sits quietly enjoying music and smiling, his dog might sit down beside him and smile, too. But who knows whether the dog is having a comparable experience or whether the dog is simply happy that his master is happy.” – Oliver Sacks
“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
“Our true nationality is mankind.” ― H.G. Wells
“Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.”–Mitch Hedberg