'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.

Terry Pratchett

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

William Ellery Channing

Successful crimes alone are justified.

John Dryden

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Theodore White

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

Joan Cusack

A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money.

Andrew William Mellon

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

Sargent Shriver

Very often when you look at the moon, you see only a part of it, but you know there is a much larger object there. Very often we look (or converse) with a person, and we see or are aware of only a small sliver of their life and we may think that is all there is. Try to get to know more about the whole person!

Source Unknown

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Thornton Wilder

The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.

Tony Kushner