I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

Bed is the poor man's opera.

Italian Proverb

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.

Emeril Lagasse

In life there can be no victor, for death comes to all and smites them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

Vincent Van Gogh

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

H. L. Mencken

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Andrea Dworkin

Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

Bobby Hull

I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.

Nikki Sixx

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Leslie Caron