It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
-- Madeleine L'Engle AA

The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
-- Henry Ward Beecher AA

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
-- Lewis Thomas AA

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
-- Henry Fielding AA