I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect

Bertrand Russell

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Marilyn Monroe

I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.

Carl Hiaasen

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

Daniel Radcliffe

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

Richard Dawkins

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Karl Lagerfeld

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

Jesse Jackson

It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone...

Joseph Conrad

It's always a pleasure when you get to work with people that you actually really like.

Mekhi Phifer

I'm not naive. I realise that quality of life and income are inextricably bound together, but sooner or later we're going to have to ask ourselves whether it is possible to make life more meaningful without charging it to Visa.

Daron Hicklin