We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.

Trust not too much to an enchanting face.

Virgil

I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it.

Dominic Cooper

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

Charlie Kaufman

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

Carl Hiaasen

But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief

William Shakespeare

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Marriage is an exercise in torture.

Frances Conroy

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Jean Rhys

Lives are snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close in

Neil Gaiman