I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

If you want to see your plays performed the way you wrote them, become President.

Vaclav Havel

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

Shana Alexander

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

Zhang Ziyi

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

Naveen Jain

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Anton Chekhov

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

Richard Moss

The anxiety, which in this state of their attachment must be the portion of Henry and Catherine, and of all who loved either, as to its final event, can hardly extend, I fear, to the bosom of my readers, who will see in the tell-tale compression of the pages before them, that we are all hastening together to perfect felicity.

Jane Austen

When in doubt, use brute force.

Ken Thompson

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

Julia Roberts

If women were humbler, men would be more honest.

Sir John Vanbrugh

I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

Alan Cumming

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, 
 tell it not to a friend.

Kahlil Gibran