The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

Barbara Corcoran

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

William Shakespeare

Imagination cannot make fools wise, but it makes them happy, as against reason, which only makes its friends wretched: one covers them with glory, the other with shame.

Blaise Pascal

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

Kesha

In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Oscar Wilde

When they write my obituary. Tomorrow. Or the next day. It will say, Leo Gursky is survived by an apartment full of shit

Nicole Krauss

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

John F. Kennedy

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

George Eliot

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Aldrich Ames

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses, cried the young Student; but in all my garden there is no red rose.

Oscar Wilde

Thomas Jefferson -- still surv

John Adams