Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

Steve Albini

I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.

Liev Schreiber

I've never had a drink of alcohol or any drug in my life.

Penn Jillette

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Henry David Thoreau

One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We have been taught to accept the myth not as an heroic ideal, something good, brave, and nearly impossible to fulfil, but as the very fiber of normal life. Given most families and most marriages, the belief seems admirable but foolhardily.

Jonathan Raban

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

Johann von Goethe

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

James Gates Percival

The author should be in his work like God is in the universe--present everywhere and visible nowhere.L'auteur dans son oeuvre doit etre comme Dieu dans l'univers, present partout et visible nulle part.

Gustave Flaubert

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

Mira Grant

being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.

Simone Elkeles