Every fairytale has a villain. All high quality happy endings involve a black-hearted monster. I just didn't want you to be mine.

There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Suzanne Lafollette

The result of what Kennedy did can be understood by analogy. It is as if he created a building named, 'A man on the moon in ten years,' and inside the building he put offices for all the various ideas, positions, notions and people that had to do with space flight. The first office inside the front door of the building in 1961 would have been called, 'it can't be done.' This office would have been inhabited by the skeptics and the cynics.A content or position is threatened by any opposite position. Given two opposing positions, only one can survive. On the other hand, a context gives space to, it literally allows, it even encourages, positions that are apparently the opposite. In fact, the most important position in a newly-created context is the position which appears to oppose the context.

Werner Erhard

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

George Orwell, Politics and the

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Henry P. Fairchild

What has happened is that to some degree they have taken an attitude where they don't listen to demos of diverse subject matters. They're looking for demos like the record the guy on the left just did.

Grandmaster Flash

We are exactly what our history made us to be.

Stephen Richards

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

Wislawa Szymborska

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jessie Sampter

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Thornton Wilder, attributed

Art must unquestionably have a social value that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.

Rockwell Kent

I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.

Mia Kirshner

Hatred is the madness of the heart.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron