I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

Never do wrong when people are looking.

Mark Twain

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.

Robert Morgan

There is no one subsists by himself alone.

Owen Felltham

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

John Churton Collins

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

Barack Obama

No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell;Nay, if you read this line, remember notThe hand that writ it; for I love you so,That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,If thinking on me then would make you woe.

William Shakespeare

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

Billie Holiday

I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.

Dave Chappelle

Will it please you to answer me this and to give me a rule for then I will willingly submit to any truth.

Anne Hutchinson

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

Terence