It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Allen Ginsberg

Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!

David Chalmers

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Rebecca West

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

George Bernard Shaw

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

Jennifer Aniston

Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.

E. M. Forster

For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

Samuel Johnson, Rambler #148, Au

I've crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you.

V.S. Carnes

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Harold MacMillan

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Neil Gaiman