There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

J. B. Priestley

Rest, rest, shall I have not all eternity to rest.

Antoine Arnauld

I try to lie as much as I can when I'm interviewed. It's reverse psychology. I figure if you lie, they'll print the truth.

River Phoenix

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Herbert Spencer

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

Elias Canetti

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

Shawn Ashmore

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

Jane Austen

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

Ibrahim Babangida

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Ted Nelson

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt

Christian Boltanski

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau