Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

John Donne

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Philo

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

Terry Eagleton

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

Dashiell Hammett

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

Anatole Broyard

Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.

Proverb

I like food. I like eating. And I don't want to deprive myself of good food.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.

Barbara Sher

What do a few lies on TV matter? They can be swallowed, digested and excreted, or follow people when they doze off to sink into oblivion.

Zhang Jie

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

John Dewey

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

Mary Balogh

There's always a but. It's a magical word. You can say anything you want, go on for as long as you want, and then all you have to do is add the magic word and instantly everything you said is erased, turned meaningless, just like that.

Charles Benoit