Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

William E. Simon

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

Rita Mae Brown, Speech, August 2

I'm not that big a fan of marriage as an institution and I don't know why women need to have children to be seen as complete human beings.

Marisa Tomei

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.

Bertrand Russell

What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

E. M. Cioran

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

Hugh Jackman

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

LouisFerdinand Celine

I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

Venus Williams

Talking about food is like talking about your dreams. Everyone has something to say. We all have to eat, it's just what we eat which differs. Some people eat for fuel and I feel bad for them.

Gael Garcia Bernal