The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them.

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

Trent Reznor

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

E. M. Forster

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

Charles Kuralt

Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Thomas Carlyle

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Jean de La Fontaine

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

Audrey Niffenegger

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

Emily Bronte

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Oscar Wilde

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

Charles Fillmore

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

Donna Shalala

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

Kenneth Koch

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein