“...Who could refrain, That had a heart to love, and in that heart Courage to make love known?”

“I drink to the general joy o the whole table." Macbeth”

“Screw your courage to the sticking-place”

“Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.”

“Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signify...”

“Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.”

“Who is John Galt?”

“I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.”

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a...”