The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay.

Opportunity is a favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Ambrose Bierce

We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there.

Gary Oldman

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

Howard Stern

Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.

Aristotle

You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

Sloane Crosley

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

Rod Stewart

I want to age with some dignity.

Pete Townshend

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Charles R. Swindoll

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

JeanPaul Sartre

I consider it a mark of great prudence in a man to abstain from threats or any contemptuous expressions, for neither of these weaken the enemy, but threats make him more cautious, and the other excites his hatred, and a desire to revenge himself.

Niccolo Machiavelli

...music is the key to life

DMX

Don't agonize. Organize.

Florynce R. Kennedy