I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

Isak Dinesen

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand, 19

It's the most amazing cast, a dream cast. We laugh all the time.

Nicole Sullivan

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

John Lennon

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Karl Marx

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

James Gunn

Enlightenment must come little by little-otherwise it would overwhelm.

Idries Shah

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Sa'di

Order the beauty even of beauty is, It is the rule of bliss, The very life and form and cause of pleasure.

Thomas Traherne

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

Jerry B. Jenkins

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

Tyne Daly

What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.

Francis Beaumont