There are some moments you feel like you'll remember forever. Rare, still moments when everything is NOW, as if everything has been stopped and hushed so that you can take it all in. When things are just as they should be, and everyone is one your side, and the whole world makes sense [...] Suddenly, there's peace, perfection, happiness. In that one, tiny moment of time.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

Naguib Mahfouz

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

Sigmund Freud

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

Henry James

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

James Baldwin

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

Sigourney Weaver

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Thomas Carlyle

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Louis Auchincloss

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.

Johnny Depp

unrequitted love amuses me

Cassandra Clare

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

Albert Einstein

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

Rand Paul

The only truth is music.

Jack Kerouac