Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Roger Ebert

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me?

Sebastian Barry

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

Jose Padilha

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

Sarah McLachlan

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Ellen Glasgow

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Blaise Pascal

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Paul Theroux

It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.

John Green

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.

Rachel McAdams

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Orson Scott Card

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Epicurus