My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!

Cath Crowley

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Malcolm X

She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after that, narrow and hot. He grew molten when she passed near other men, and at night they made their own shaking tent. They got teased too much and moved farther off, into the brush, into the nesting ground of shy and holy loons. There, no one could hear them. In solitude they made love until they became gaunt and hungry, pale windigos with aching eyes, tongues of flame.

Louise Erdrich

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

Neil Gaiman

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

Mohammed

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

Susan Powter

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

Jack Dee

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Baruch Spinoza

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

Norman Mailer