I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

Herbert Spencer

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

Haruki Murakami

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don

Art Buchwald

Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live Not where I love, but where I am, I die.

Robert Southey

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

Jim Jarmusch

Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.

Anthony Liccione

Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

Edward Bond

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

Thurgood Marshall

That first scream, my lord, was indeed your daughter, my wife, and if you kill me, your grandchild will be quite without a father. Won't you come in?

Deeanne Gist

I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.

Sting

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Mae West