I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Dalai Lama

I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.

Vince Gill

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes...

S.E. Hinton

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Maya Lin

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots; the other, wings.

William Hodding Carter, Jr.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it's just a big play.

Eric Bana

If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.

Bowen Baxter

Life is a school of probability

Walter Bagehot

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Albert Einstein

The important thing about travel in foreign lands is that it breaks the speech habits and makes you blab less, and breaks the habitual space-feeling because of different village plans and different landscapes. It is less important that there are different mores, for you counteract these with your own reaction-formations.

Paul Goodman