My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

The ancient Greeks, as Plato reports, believed that we discover truth through reminiscence, that is by remembering, by intuitively searching into our own experience.

Rollo May

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

Dorothy L. Sayers

He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.

Ang Lee

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Quentin Crisp

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

Itzhak Perlman

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Michael Garrett Marino

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Mark Twain

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.

Rick Santorum