I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

Jonathan Krohn

When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie.

Eric Parslow

You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Beryl Markham

I'd like to see North America become a dry, sunny, sandy region inhabited mainly by lizards, buzzards and a modest human population - about 25 million would be plenty - of pastoralists and prospectors (prospecting for truth), gathering once a year in the ruins of ancient, mysterious cities for great ceremonies of music, art, dance, poetry, joy, faith and renewal. That's my dream of the American future. Like most such dreams, it will probably come true. That is why I'm still an optimist.

Edward Abbey

Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.

Scott Westerfeld

I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored

Cassandra Clare

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Steven Wright

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

Susanna Kaysen

Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

George Bernard Shaw

The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.

Ethan Hawke

There is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9

Bible

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

John Burroughs