I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Dwight Whitney Morrow

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Brian Eno

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.

William Shakespeare

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Benjamin Franklin

God is the name we give our conscience.

Nader Shureih

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.Fr., Toutes les passions ne sout autre chose que les divers degres de la chaleur et de la froideur du sang.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld, Pr

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps twenty players, and Tennessee Williams has about five, and Samuel Beckett one - and maybe a clone of that one. I have ten or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.

Gore Vidal

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

Thomas L. Holdcroft

There should be one day when there is open season on senators.

Will Rogers

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good -- and less trouble!

Mark Twain

Yeah, ideally, I'd probably wish to be more anonymous. But scrutiny and success go together. And I want to be successful.

Paula Radcliffe