Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I've learned that nobody's love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

Gabriel Byrne

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

Wallace Stevens

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

David Giuntoli

I want fame more than I can tell. But more than I want fame I want happiness.

Mary MacLane

My e-mail address is actually my wife's e-mail address. I actually hate computers.

Joe Sakic

Falsehood falsehood cures

William Shakespeare

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Terry Pratchett

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Walter Bagehot

Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

John Podhoretz

Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb?

Emily Dickinson

It's funny, though, speaking of fathers and sons, because me and John Goodman played father and son, like, five or six years ago in the film 'Death Sentence,' and I got back with him again in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

Garrett Hedlund

We are all ignorant once and only when someone or something that knows more than us, comes in.

Emmanuel Aghado