I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

It's the last inch that counts.

Source Unknown

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

Graeme Murphy

People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true

Bertrand Russell

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Ayn Rand

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

Dan Savage

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It

J. G. Ballard, interview in M, 1

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Seamus Heaney

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.

Paul Theroux

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

Beth Ditto

You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline.

Neil Gaiman

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Katherine Anne Porter

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Rosalind Russell