I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.

Sigmund Freud

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

Jason Aldean

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

William Blake

I've always known I wanted a family.

Charlize Theron

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Jane Austen

You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

Studs Terkel

in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house

Virginia Woolf

Torture is such a slippery slope as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

Iain Banks

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Franz Kafka

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Mason Cooley

No one is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart: for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

James Baldwin