The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Sara Teasdale

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Jeanette Winterson

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

John Betjeman

Your private life is your private life and you keep it to yourself. You get more respect that way.

Jay Kay

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

Plato

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need.

Harvey Cox

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

Katy Perry

I will have a song that I'm in love with for a couple of months and then I'll go to something else. That's just constantly changing. And sometimes I will go back to old one that I haven't heard for a long time.

Ray Brown

Some people never find it, some only pretend, but I just want to live happily ever after every now and then.

Jimmy Buffett

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

Mary McCarthy

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Rabindranath Tagore

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

Ethel Merman