What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

Joseph Addison

The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.

James S. Coleman

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.

Federico Fellini

Time is but the stream I go a fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the world, but every possible world, must conform.

Bertrand Russell

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Albert Einstein

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Fran Lebowitz

I still love him so much I'll hide any amount of conjugated estrogen in his food. So much I'll do anything to destroy him.

Chuck Palahniuk

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Irving Babbitt

Wow, said Adrian. He sat down on the bed and tested its bounciness, giving it a nod of approval. This is amazing. What do you think, buttercup?I have no words, I said honestly.He patted the spot beside him. Want to try it out?

Richelle Mead

Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.

Guillaume Apollinaire

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

David Rockefeller