As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.

Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.

Deb Caletti

The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

Jack Henry Abbott

Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.

Neil Gaiman

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

Marquis de Sade

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman Dyson

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

Jimi Hendrix

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Paul De Man

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Freya Stark

Begin again as often as you need to in order to stay on track spiritually...

Elizabeth Funderbirk

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Rodney Dangerfield