Despair, feeding, as it always does, on phantasmagoria, is imperturbably leading literature to the rejection, en masse, of all divine and social laws, towards practical and theoretical evil.

A life without obstacles or trials is a life without growth.

Lamar Thompson

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

Lena Dunham

I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.

Ellen Page

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Thomas Jefferson

Your face, my thane, is as a book where menMay read strange matters. To beguile the time,Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under't.

William Shakespeare

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

Neil Gaiman

When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.

Harvey Weinstein

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Edmund Burke

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Erma Bombeck

My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

Jessica Hagedorn

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

Bowyer Bell