I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.

Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Jean de la Bruyere

God is in the details.

Mies Van der Rohe, "New York Tim

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

Victor Hugo

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

Maurice Maeterlinck

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

Mike McCurry

Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

William James

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

Puff Daddy

Finding the right one is never easy. Especially, when the wrong one looks so right.

Hanifa Johnson

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

David Byrne

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.

Meg Rosoff

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.

Albert Brooks

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson