I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

Charles Horton Cooley

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.

Joan Rivers

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Stephen Leacock

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

Frank Herbert

In order to feel complete love, we can either delude ourselves that some imperfect object of our love is perfection or we can love perfection, which is God.

Leo Tolstoy

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

Henry Rollins

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

Dwight D Eisenhower

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Sigmund Freud

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

Angela Carter

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking

Friedrich Nietzsche

I can't tell you 100 percent what makes a relationship work. But I can see something good coming and I can see something bad coming.

Sandra Bernhard