I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.

Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

J. J. Abrams

Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

Ambrose Bierce

Natürlich ist die Ehe nur Gewohnheit. Eine schlechte sogar. Aber man bedauert sogar den Verlust der schlechten Gewohnheit. Kann sein, dass man sie sogar am meisten bedauert.

Oscar Wilde

In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are.

Melissa McPhail

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Henry Miller

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Igor Stravinsky

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

Emil Ludwig

Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart.

Marianne Williamson

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

H. L. Mencken

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Jane Austen