My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything.

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Walter Lippmann

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Max Beckmann

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton

A person who tries to find good outside himself, wither in this life or in the one to come, is making a mistake.

Leo Tolstoy

To be a person is to have a story to tell.

Isak Dinesen

January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.

Michael Caine

I want to be a mom who listens.

Tori Spelling

Bukankah sangat menyenangkan jika kau bisa menciptakan sebuah dunia dan mengajak orang lain untuk tinggal di dalamnya?

Irin Sintriana

Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.

Djuna Barnes

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

Oscar Wilde

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

Diablo Cody