I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fa

People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.

Ann Curry

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Kahlil Gibran

It's great that New York has large spaces for art. But the enormous immaculate box has become a dated, even oppressive place. Many of these spaces were designed for sprawling installations, large paintings, and the Relational Aesthetics work of the past fifteen years.

Jerry Saltz

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Frank A. Clark

Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.

John Ruskin

On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.

Michael Tolkin

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Aldous Huxley

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Ambrose Bierce

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.

Maurice Sendak

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Stephen Sondheim

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Samuel Johnson