Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. (Song of Solomon 8:7)

Bible

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

Alan Moore

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

Luis Bunuel

Direct your eye right inward, and you'll findA thousand regions in your mindYet undiscovered. Travel them, and beExpert in home-cosmography.quoted by Thoreau in Walden Conclusion

William Habbington, from To My H

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

Thomas Jefferson

I think the fact that I was raised in show business, in New York City, in the '50s, that's affected my personality to the point that I'm a little different.

Christopher Walken

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

Gloria Allred

We love your adherence to democratic principles and to the democratic process.

George H. W. Bush

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

Kanye West

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

Robertson Davies