My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em.

Loretta Lynn

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Cyril Connolly

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

Mickey Kaus

I love Beethoven, especially the poems.

Ringo Starr

I'm committed to universal health coverage and education.

Carol Moseley Braun

Chop the slop!

Torley

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

B. R. Ambedkar

The social dimension of reticence and nonacknowledgment is most developed in forms of politeness and deference. We don't want to tell people what we think of them, and we don't want to hear from them what they think of us, though we are happy to surmise their thoughts and feelings, and to have them surmise ours, at least up to a point. We don't, if we are reasonable, worry too much what they may say about us behind our backs, just as we often say things about a third party that we wouldn't say to his face. Since everyone participates in these practices, they aren't, or shouldn't be, deceptive. Deception is another matter, and sometimes we have reason to object to it, though sometimes we have no business knowing the truth, even about how someone really feels about us.http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/nagel/papers/exposure.html

Thomas Nagel, from Philosophy &

The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.

Richard Edwardes

Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over.And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.

Nancy Werlin

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Jim Morrison