There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

George Michael

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Fidel Castro, Speech on the 2nd

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

Jonathan Swift

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

Joseph Addison

You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.

Mike Murdock

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

Charles Baudelaire

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

Suze Orman

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Ernest Hemingway

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

Jean Paul

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

Elizabeth Fuller

Every day is a journey filled with twists and turns. Every day, if you smile, you will feel alive, my son.

Santosh Kalwar

I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person.

Janeane Garofalo