I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Helen Rowland

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

Rickie Lee Jones

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

Marilyn Monroe

It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.

Terry Pratchett

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.

Brother Angelus

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

Mark Twain

He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.

Christopher Hitchens

I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.

John Updike

The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.

Sir Francis Drake

I just want to keep learning.

Simon Kinberg

Law is mighty, mightier necessity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe