I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Phoebe Cary

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Fran Lebowitz

It is peculiarly the business of a monitor to keep his own reputation untainted, lest those who can once charge him with partiality, should indulge themselves afterwards in disbelieving him at pleasure

Samuel Johnson

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Rutherford B. Hayes

To climb a tree to catch a fish is talking much and doing nothing.

Chinese Proverb

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Alan Moore

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Robertson Davies

MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . . If your mind has been deceived by some invisible enemy into a belief, you have put it into the form of a disease, with or without your knowledge. By my theory or truth I come in contact with your enemy and restore you to health and happiness.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, Comple

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

Tina Turner

That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.

Julianna Margulies

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

Wilhelm Reich