I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

Life sucks. Enlightenment is getting over it.

Ari Delta

God does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.

William Jefferson Clinton

Power is paradoxical.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.

Terry Pratchett

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Sholem Asch

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Samuel Johnson

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Samuel Butler

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The British have been more up for it than the Americans were, particularly with respect to nudity in the show. In Europe there are adverts that show the breasts, so people are less frightened of that aspect of the show. Americans can withstand incredible violence on TV shows - which, as I come from England and Canada, I find difficult to stomach - but they are more puritanical when it comes to nudity on screen.

Kim Cattrall, "Sunday Express ma

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

Richard M. Daley

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

Pythagoras