To be friends is a beautiful thing, Tessa, and I do not scorn it, but I have hoped for a long time now that we might be more than friends.

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Distance is a great promoter of admiration!

Denis Diderot

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Neal Cassady

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

William Shakespeare

The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me.

Thomas Huxley

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

Herbie Hancock

I don't love you as if you were a rose of salt, topazor arrow of carnations that propagate fire:I love you as one loves certain dark things,secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

Pablo Neruda

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Henry David Thoreau

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

Friedrich List

Hello, boys. How are you all? I just love boys. Hello. Are you here alone? Who are you with?...A woman? At my show?...We'll make believe. It's theatre.

Harvey Fierstein

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out. Of course, the aftermath was less pleasant. Once you'd told everyone you hated them and not to come after you, where exactly did you go?

Cassandra Clare

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act if it weren't, more women would do it.

Kate Clinton