An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger, it's motivation.

Roger Clemens

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

Peter Ustinov

I got a lovely check today from being a writer that I earned by sitting at home. That's rewarding.

Harvey Fierstein

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

J. William Fulbright, speech, to

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone.

Francis Picabia

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

John Ruskin

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

Dwight L. Moody

When I was a small boy I often went to the woods to lie on the grass in the shade. Somehow I had come to believe the earth could give me wisdom, but it did not. Yet I learned a little about animals and learned it is not always brave to make a stand. It is often foolish. There is a time for courage and a time for flight.

Louis L'Amour, Ride The Dark Tra

The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.

Renata Adler

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Robert Cormier

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.

Samuel L. Jackson

Make today worth remembering.

Zig Ziglar