Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

Kevin Smith

For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.

Eric Alterman

YOU ARE AN ARTIST OF THE SPIRITFind yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art.

Miguel Ruiz

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

If you share a common ancestor with somebody, you're related to them. It doesn't mean that you're going to invite them to the family reunion, but it means that you share DNA. I think it's fascinating.

Henry Louis Gates

No matter what policy initiatives we take on, we are going to need a permanent repository for nuclear fuel based on the law and sound science.

Craig Stevens

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Sigmund Freud

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Helen Rowland

Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.

Paul Brunton

I'm not preaching the truth to you. It's called casting pearls before swine. But people with real brains actually go here, and they are appalled by the lies. I am pointing them out for them, not for you. You are hopeless. Your post proves it. Duh.

Jack Thompson

Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller, The Maid

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

Alain de Botton