If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

H. L. Mencken

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--Success in Cirrcuit liesToo bright for our infirm DelightThe Truth's superb surpriseAs Lightening to the Children easedWith explanation kindThe Truth must dazzle graduallyOr every man be blind--

Emily Dickinson

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.

William Shakespeare

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

Kurt Vonnegut

The thing about New York is you can leave your house without a plan and find the day. You can't do that in Los Angeles. You need to get in your car, all this, you can't just drive around like a lunatic. In New York, you can literally walk outside, and wind up anywhere.

Michael Rapaport

I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Dr. Jean Hanson

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Ezra Pound

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Channing Pollock

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Albert Camus

Many a man isn't as good as his woman, but I never knew a husband who was better than his wife.

Orson Scott Card

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

Sam Raimi