The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

W. H. Auden

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

Marilyn Manson

Live music is better.

Neil Young

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.

Jay London

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

Emile M. Cioran

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

Sir Winston Churchill

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

Nelson Goodman

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Pat Riley

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you.

Rabbi Ben Azai

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

Maggie Smith

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968.

Sandra Bernhard