We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

It is man's own fault, it is from want of use, if his mind grows torpid in old age.

Samuel Johnson

Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.

Oscar Wilde

In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.

Hank Azaria

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

Matthew Green

Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.

J.K. Rowling

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

Kyra Sedgwick

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

Gelett Burgess

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Nikolai Gogol

Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I've been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I'm doing now.

Warren Farrell

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Martin Luther King Jr.

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

Lev Yilmaz