The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Harvey Fierstein

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

J. PetitSenn

I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

Matthew Fox

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Just once in my life a man tried to embrace me. It was horrible! He had big boots, a heavy belt, huge gloves. Faugh! Oh, let's not talk about men.

Renee Vivien

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Walter Pater

Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.

Chandler Burr, The Emperor of Sc

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

Ogden Nash

Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: One must not hide that! Then someone tells you: The shoulder is on the back. I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.

Coco Chanel

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

Patricia Hewitt

There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Dave Barry