We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

Huey Newton

Listen there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

e. e. cummings

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.

Dick Francis

The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.

Paulo Coelho

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

George Lucas

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones

William Shakespeare

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

Grover Norquist

Society is a hospital of incurables.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I learned why they're called wonder drugs -- you wonder what they'll do to you.

Harlan Miller

It's just as idiotic to say there is no life after death as it is to say there is one.

Jeanne Moreau

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

Alison Bechdel