"So it goes."
— Kurt Vonnegut
"Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
— Samuel Johnson
Meryl Streep’s 2004 Emmy Acceptance Speech, for “Angels in America”
"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
— Michael Jordan
"Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience."
— Christopher Hitchens
"Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony."
— Christopher Hitchens
"To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else’s body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away."
— Christopher Hitchens
"Literature, not scripture, sustains the mind and —since there is no other metaphor—also the soul."
— Christopher Hitchens
"[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence."
— Christopher Hitchens
"Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay."
— Christopher Hitchens
