I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

Fernando Pessoa

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

People see his pleasure-ground; him no one sees at all.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.

Robert D. Foster

I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

Paul Lynde

When you care about situations or people, you're hopeful that things will get better. When you worry about them, you're afraid they won't.

Donna Labermeier

Well, I don't think just because people are in a relationship that they're happy. I don't think relationships necessarily make people happy. You just are happy or you're not happy.

Lisa Edelstein

Through radio I look forward to a united states of the world. Radio is standardizing the peoples of the earth, English will become the universal language because it is predominantly the language of the ether. The most important aspect of radio is its sociological influence

Arthur Edwin Kennelly, 1926

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

Ezra Pound

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

Christopher Hitchens