It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.

I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person that's the nature of the work I do.

Joni Mitchell

Beauty is a pledge of the possible conformity between the soul and nature, and consequently a ground of faith in the supremacy of the good.

George Santayana

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

John Malkovich

She has never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess. That she had managed to keep it inside her this long was astounding to James. He thought of pushing open the half-closed door and kneeling before his wife, wrapping his arms around her shoulders and helping her upstairs. He raised his hand, stroking the wood of the door, planning to say something to calm her. But what wisdom could he offer Gus, when he could not even heed it himself? James walked upstairs again, got into bed, covered his head with a pillow. And hours later, when Gus crept beneath the sheets, he tried to pretend that he did not feel the weight of her grief, lying between them like a fitful child, so solid that he could not reach past it to touch her.

Jodi Picoult

Most of the time you're too busy to think about it. But every now and then you say, 'I work at 'Saturday Night Live,' and that is so cool.

Tina Fey

Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.

William Shakespeare

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

Mark Twain

When I go to a restaurant, I eat three-quarters of the food in front of me. That cuts my calorie intake by 25 percent.

Bobby Flay

There is more to life than not dying.

Cassandra Clare

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Blaise Pascal

Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

E. M. Cioran