You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Ellen Parr

I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.

Haley Joel Osment

I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; --neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Georges Clemenceau

I am unlovable...I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

Jeff Lindsay

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

George Carlin

There are two kinds of people in the world -- those you love, and those you don't understand.

Source Unknown

It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'

Jerry Saltz

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

George Washington

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless,and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

Ilyas Kassam

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Howard Nemerov