I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.

Brian O'Driscoll

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.

Abraham Lincoln

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Mike Tyson

Art is born of humiliation.

W. H. Auden

Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Lord Chesterfield

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Mailer, The Deer Park

I don't know how many good books I still have in me I hope there are another four or five.

Haruki Murakami

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

John Steinbeck

I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school.

Kyan Douglas

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

William Shakespeare

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

David Bailey