I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.', Henry David Thoreau, Resistance to Civil Government', US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862)

I try to know what I need to know. I make sure to know what I want to know.', Nero Wolfe',

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.', Sir Francis Bacon, Of Death', English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626)

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.', Heinrich Heine', German critic & poet (1797 - 1856)

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.', Alice James',