It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

John Wooden

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

No fate could rob us of our own-- No circumstance can make it less; What time removes was but a loan, For what was ours we still possess.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Possession

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

Samuel Johnson

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot.

Albert Einstein

The noble old synagogue had been profaned and turned into a stable by the Nazis, and left open to the elements by the Communists, at least after they had briefly employed it as a 'furniture facility.' It had then been vandalized and perhaps accidentally set aflame by incurious and callous local 'youths.' Only the well-crafted walls really stood, though a recent grant from the European Union had allowed a makeshift roof and some wooden scaffolding to hold up and enclose the shell until further notice. Adjacent were the remains of a bath for the ritual purification of women, and a kosher abattoir for the ritual slaughter of beasts: I had to feel that it was grotesque that these obscurantist relics were the only ones to have survived. In a corner of the yard lay a pile of smashed stones on which appeared inscriptions in Hebrew and sometimes Yiddish. These were all that remained of the gravestones. There wasn't a Jew left in the town, and there hadn't been one, said Mr. Kichler, since 1945.

Christopher Hitchens

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.

William Faulkner

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Epicurus

The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.

John Legend

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

Laura Linney