I drank a little California Mountain Red at home and thought--why not--wherever you turn someone is shouting give me liberty of I give you death. Perfectly sensible, thing-owning, Church-fearing neighbours flop their hands over their ears at the sound of a siren to keep fallout from taking hold of their internal organs. You have to be cockeyed to love, and blind in order to look out the window at your own ice-cold street.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

Emily Carr

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Alfred Nobel

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Michel de Montaigne

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

Rebecca De Mornay

The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.

Douglas Everett

Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.

Catfish Hunter

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

How close men, despite all their knowledge, usually live to madness? What is truth but to live for an idea? When all is said and done, everything is based on a postulate; but not until it no longer stands on the outside, not until one lives in it, does it cease to be a postulate.

Søren Kierkegaard

The doctor says he has to amputate all of me.

Steven Wright

The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.

Victor Frankl

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.

Ernest Becker

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

Johnny Depp