Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

H. L. Mencken

Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Miguel de Cervantes

There's a lot of faith expressed by scientists about science. It's kind of an act of faith that science is a good thing. We don't know that for sure. We may not know that millions of years from now.

George M. Church

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

David Foster Wallace

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.

Vladimir Lenin

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.

Lena Dunham