My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Laurence Sterne

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

Moon Unit Zappa

He would rather lose his power for doing right, than keep his power by doing wrong. Because he loves his people more than he loves his office.

Orson Scott Card

When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway?

Henry Flynt

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

Christopher Lasch

I'm gonna live till I die.

Frank Sinatra

So if you care to find me/Look to the western sky/As someone told me lately/Everyone deserves the chance to fly!/And if I'm flying solo/At least I'm flying free/Tell those who'd ground me/Take a message back from me/Tell them how I am defying gravity!/I'm flying high defying gravity/And soon I'll match them in renown./And nobody in all of Oz/No Wizard that there is or was/Is ever gonna bring me down!/

Stephen Schwartz

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

R. D. Laing

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.

Susan Sontag

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

Ernest Hemingway

Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

Kurt Vonnegut

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

John Green