Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.

William Hazlitt

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

Martin Scorsese

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Jean Paul

Sometimes your dreams come true.

Frank Bruno

During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son, my dear friend David Rieff. On one occasion, we made a special detour to the town of Zenica, where there was reported to be a serious infiltration of outside Muslim extremists: a charge that was often used to slander the Bosnian government of the time. We found very little evidence of that, but the community itself was much riven as between Muslim, Croat, and Serb. No faction was strong enough to predominate, each was strong enough to veto the other's candidate for the chairmanship of the city council. Eventually, and in a way that was characteristically Bosnian, all three parties called on one of the town's few Jews and asked him to assume the job. We called on him, and found that he was also the resident intellectual, with a natural gift for synthesizing matters. After we left him, Susan began to chortle in the car. 'What do you think?' she asked. 'Do you think that the only dentist and the only shrink in Zenica are Jewish also?' It would be dense to have pretended not to see her joke.

Christopher Hitchens

Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ignore ignorance? You might as well withhold medicine from a very sick patient. Not only will the patient get worse, the disease will spread.

Stifyn Emrys

No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.

Bruce Barton

There are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express the depth of my love for you.

Steve Maraboli

The study of law is valuable as a mental discipline, but the practice of pleading tends to make one petty, formal, and insincere. To be driven to look to legality rather than to equity blurs the view of truth and justice.

John Lancaster Spalding

I watch things that are fun, or funny, or interesting.

Martha Plimpton

Imagine there was a pallet of $35M in cash that was plummeting through the atmosphere, and it was going to burn up.

Elon Musk