Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior.

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.

Stanley Crouch

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

Liev Schreiber

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

Julie Cameron

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Clifton Fadiman

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

Leif Garrett

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.

William Shakespeare

Pain is temporary...quitting is forever.

Anonymous

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

Reba McEntire

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

Rebecca West

If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.

Vin Diesel