My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Aldous Huxley

Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours?Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short.

William Shakespeare

In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls.

Lenny Bruce

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

Jane Austen

Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another.

Elizabeth von Arnim

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

Paul Klee

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

Dustin Hoffman

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie. -Puddleglum in The Silver Chair

C.S. Lewis

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

Jackie Kennedy

We didn't care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we're getting the same results in more subtle ways.

Harvey Weinstein

At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that stuff - at that point I was at the level where they respect you and your opinion and all that sort of thing.

Jim Henson

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

Naomi Wolf