Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction.

I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

Nathan Fillion

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

Rachel Maddow

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Paulo Coelho

Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

J. D. Salinger

Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

Jerry Seinfeld

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

James Russell Lowell

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Salvador Dali

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.

Marguerite Duras

The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world.

Louise Bernikow

Newlyweds shooting budget: 5k for actors, 2k insurance, 2k food and drink. 9k in the can. We only shot 12 days. That's how to make an independent film.

Edward Burns

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Henry James

The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

Carl Gustav Jung