Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

Niklas Zennstrom

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Johann von Goethe

Science always uses metaphor.

James Lovelock

I know a lot of Eastern Europeans, and because of what they have been through and what they have seen, they have an attitude where they are not easily fooled.

Francine Prose

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

Charlie Sheen

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

Ang Lee

O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo

William Shakespeare

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spencer

I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

Frank Capra

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Government has an obligation not to inhibit the collection and dissemination of news. Im convinced that if reporters should ever lose the right to protect the confidentiality of their sources then serious investigative reporting will simply dry up. The kind of resourceful, probing journalism that first exposed most of the serious scandals, corruption and injustice in our nations history would simply disappear. And let me tell you, reading about ones failings in the daily papers is one of the privileges of high office in this free country of ours.

Nelson Rockefeller

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation.

Jane Austen