Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.

There is a new billboard outside Time Square. It keeps an up-to minute count of gun-related crimes in New York. Some goofball is going to shoot someone just to see the numbers move.

David Letterman

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

Al Yankovic

Each day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.

William Shakespeare

The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.

Portia de Rossi

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

Doug Coupland

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those of adults. I am an adult, and I used to be a teenager, and so I can tell you with some authority that my feelings then were as real as my feelings are now.

John Green

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

Jean Baudrillard

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

Bonnie Blair

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Samuel Johnson

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Lao Tzu