It seems to occur to few of the attendees [of a writing retreat] that if you have a feel you just can't describe, you might just be, I don't know, kind of like, my sense of it is, maybe in the wrong fucking class.

To die, to sleep --To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause; there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

Oscar Niemeyer

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessness and vague desire--It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

Edgar Lee Masters

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

J. PetitSenn

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

Hedy Lamarr

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.

Samuel Butler

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

Dee Dee Myers

I cannot live without books.

Thomas Jefferson

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Charles Caleb Colton

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H.G. Wells

We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind.as cited by Susan Sackett, author of Inside Trek: A Star Trek Memoir, used with permission

Gene Roddenberry, on receiving h