There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.

C. E. Montague

I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

Valentino Garavani

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

Dave Chappelle

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

Olvidar un hecho, es modificar el pasado.(De profundis)

Oscar Wilde

I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line.

Major Owens

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Khalil Gibran

Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life

Paulo Coelho

I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?

John Green

Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence.

Victor Hugo

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

William Shakespeare

That's life when you're on the D-list.

Kathy Griffin