I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.

Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

Ernest Istook

Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

Charles Mingus

So over violent, or over civil that every man with him was God or Devil.

John Dryden

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

Samuel Johnson

I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs.

Jerry Garcia

In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.

Rosie Perez

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

Norman Mailer

Familiarity is the gateway drug to empathy.

iO Tillett Wright

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Hart Crane

Read the best books first, or else you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Carl Sagan

The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.

Ralph Waldo Emerson