I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

Tracy Morgan

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?

Sara Teasdale

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

H.L. Mencken

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

Pope Benedict XVI

To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.

Jerry Saltz

Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.

Michael Haneke

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

Francis W. Newman

Gaiety --a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Denis Diderot

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

Jasmine Guy

You cannot be lost on a road that is straight.

Proverb

Live, let live, and help live

Ralph Waldo Emerson