I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care a lot about liberty, freedom of speech and expression, and fairness in journalism.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.

Roberto Cavalli

If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be had in a good case of paralytic polio or by living in an iron lung. If you think you need stuff to play music or sing, you're crazy. It can fix you so you can't play nothing or sing nothing.

Billie Holiday

We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.

Jonathan Sacks

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

St. Jerome

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

James Taylor

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects.

Stephen King

When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

Helen Rowland

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Walter Benjamin

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.

David Brenner

The management of fertility is one of the most important functions of adulthood.

Germaine Greer