You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Maggie Gallagher

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Maria Shriver

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

John Cusack

Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.

P. J. O'Rourke

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

Alexa Vega

You are the gold and Love is within your heart.

Judy Azar LeBlanc

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

John Cheever

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Bill Nighy

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

Li Ka Shing

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

Grace Paley

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Antonio Tabucchi