I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.

Andrew Cuomo

The young men were born with knives in their brain, a tendency to introversion, self-dissection, anatomizing of motives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.

Freda Adler

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Andre Gide

The prosperous man is never sure that he is loved for himself.

F. L. Lucan

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled.

George Santayana

I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.

David Steinberg

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

Gray Davis

There are some men who are considered quite ugly, but who are more remarkable than pretty people. You often see that in artists.

George Bernard Shaw

Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what.

Martina McBride

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

R. Buckminster Fuller