Edward R. Murrow

"We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven into an age of unreason if we dig deep into our history and remember we are not descended from fearful men."

- Edward R. Murrow, journalist

Chuck Palahniuk

"Which is worse: Hell or nothing?"

- Chuck Palahniuk, journalist, satirist and novelist

Anatole France

"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Hunter S. Thompson

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

- Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and author

Ernest Hemingway

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."

- Ernest Hemingway, author and journalist

H. L. Mencken

"Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood."

- H. L. Mencken, journalist, editor, satirist, critic

Edward R. Murrow

"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation."

- Edward R. Murrow, journalist

Anatole France

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Ian Fleming

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."

- Ian Fleming, author and journalist

Anatole France

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."

- Anatole France, poet, journalist, novelist

Katherine Anne Porter

"There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own."

- Katherine Anne Porter, journalist, author, activist

Albert Camus

"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."

- Albert Camus, author, philosopher and journalist

Bill Vaughan

"An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves."

- Bill Vaughan, columnist and author

Brendan Gill

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

- Brendan Gill, journalist and author

Davy Barry

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."

- Dave Barry, author and columnist

Albert Camus

"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth."

- Albert Camus, author, philosopher, journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic."

- "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce, journalist, author and satirist

Bill Vaughan

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."

- Bill Vaughan, columnist and author

Albert Camus

"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."

- Albert Camus, author, philosopher, journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"Lawyer, n.: One skilled in circumvention of the law"

- "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce, journalist, author and satirist