When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

Kit Harington

Where id was, there shall ego be.

Sigmund Freud

I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

Thandie Newton

So little done, so much to do.

Cecil Rhodes

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

Source Unknown

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God

Voltaire

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

Michael Caine

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

Michael Ondaatje

Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

Dean Karnazes

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Jean de la Bruyere

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

George Bernard Shaw

On the whole, stories don't write themselves.

Neil Gaiman