Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

Nikki Giovanni

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

Karl Marx

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Bergen Evans

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

George Konrad

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

Hannah Arendt

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William McKinley

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

Ben Elton

It is a sign of non love that is to say a sin, to form a finished image of ones neighbors.

Max Frisch

Every relationship probably has, at its inception, a hundred things that you could pick on and divert you from it, but the feeling is there. You figure out a way to make it work.

Bennett Miller

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

It's all about creating a back story for the character and developing emotional responses that are true to life in relation to the character. It isn't necessary to live a tragic life to create from that place.

Corin Nemec