Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children.

Criss Angel

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Sinclair Lewis

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Nelson Demille

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes

Andre Gide

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

Spike Lee

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it

Ernest Hemingway

He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

Jeremy Bentham

she might have been pretty when she started out, but the world had moved on since then.

Stephen King

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

Terri Windling

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Friedrich von Schiller

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.

Mike Todd