I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.

Harold Bloom

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Lorraine Hansberry

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Steve Jobs

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

Jerry Saltz

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used to tell at all.

Umberto Eco

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

William O. Douglas

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

Source Unknown

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.

Larry David

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

Roger Penrose

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

Daphne Zuniga