I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare.

As soon as you are trying to be funny or dramatic, that's when things start feeling fake and boring.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.

Cassandra Clare

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

Rashida Jones

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

Theodore Bikel

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, 196

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Johann von Goethe

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

Demosthenes

You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment...Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.

Susan Wiggs

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

Peter Orszag

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

John McCarthy

Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion.

Edward O. Wilson

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Richard Milhous Nixon