I came from a family where I felt great pressure to be financially successful, and I felt that staying in Chicago and doing theater, I was, in all likelihood, not going to find financial success.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

George Gurdjieff

This is an extraordinary time in the history of science, in that we cannot only theorize about the beginning of the universe, but actually study the celestial fossils of how it happened.

John Moffat

Ten to 20 years out, driving your car will be viewed as equivalently immoral as smoking cigarettes around other people is today.

Marc Andreessen

You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.

Kate Moss

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

Camryn Manheim

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

George Orwell

Love poems are always cliche to me but not to the person it's for.

James Dye

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Joyce Carol Oates

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

Virginia Woolf

Let the path be open to talent.

Napoleon Bonaparte

After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...

Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler