Human beings are near-perfect animals.But our major flaw is we all die like dogs.
- Ganz

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
- Lee Simonson

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
- Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)

The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)

Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc, especially if you haven’t sold it yet. And the ones that aren’t, you don’t want in your life anyway.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 22. Nobody cares. Do it for yourself.