Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Kurt Vonnegut

The flow of Guiness into the studio was inspirational as well as nutritive.

Carter Burwell

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the

Raoul Vaneigem

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

Milan Kundera

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Albert Einstein

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are to live pleasantly with our fellow man.

Amy Vanderbilt

I'm sorry I didn't wear paint this morning. I tend not to wear it unless I'm getting highly paid.

Tyne Daly

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Aristotle

And I'm ill with the thought of your kiss, coffee-laced intoxicating on her lips... shut it out, I've got no claim on you now, I'm not allowed to wear you freedom down

A Fine Frenzy

Einstein's theory, experimentally corroborated for the last hundred years, regardless of how outlandish and opposed to our prejudices (disguised as they are with the 'common sense' costume), is rational, consistent, and intelligible to the layperson - if s/he has the audacity of accepting the unfounded nature of those prejudices.

Felix Alba-Juez

The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.

Tristan Tzara

Drugs are reality's legal loopholes.

Jeremy P. Johnson