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Sunday, May 18, 2003

�We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn�t obey the rules.�
- Alan Bennett (b. 1934), English dramatist, actor and diarist: �Getting On�, 1972.

�The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won�t get much sleep.�
- Woody Allen (b. 1935), American film director, writer, actor and comedian: �Without Feathers�, 1976.

�The foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.�
- Paul Theroux (b. 1941), American writer: �Saint Jack�, 1972.

�The black and merciless that are behind the great possessions.�
- Henry James (1843 � 1916), American-born British writer, critic and letter writer: �The Ivory Tower�, 1917.

�Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.�
- William Somerset Maugham (1874 � 1965), English writer, dramatist and physican: �A Writer�s Notebook�, 1949.



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