Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move: This cannot take her. If of herself she cannot love, Nothing can make her: The devil take her!

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.

Damien Hirst

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

J.K. Rowling

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Alexander Pope

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

J. G. Ballard

By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

Jerry Rubin

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Ani DiFranco

How people treat other people is a direct reflection of how they feel about themselves.

Paulo Coelho

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Frank Herbert

It is important not to ignore forecasts that are uncongenial.

Jib Fowles

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

Kim Novak

Träume und Märchen waren ihr eigentlicher Lebensinhalt, dachte ich jetzt. Deshalb hat sie sich auch umgebracht, dachte ich, weil ein Mensch, der nur Träume und Märchen sich zu seinem Lebensinhalt gemacht hat, in dieser Welt nicht überleben kann, nicht überleben darf, dachte ich.

Thomas Bernhard

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel