People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be the shadow of her mind. A lady, in the presence of her lover, should never want a looking-glass; as a beau, in the presence of his looking-glass, never wants a mistress.

Henry Fielding

Never f*!k with the ineffable.

Terry Pratchett

A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Walt Whitman

Wisdom and prudence are always recompensed.

Sophie Segur

Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Margaret Mitchell

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

Piper Perabo

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Jane Austen

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

Elizabeth Taylor

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Jean Genet

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Jonathan Swift

How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

Jodi Picoult

I love to write. It's my first love.

Geddy Lee