The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.

Ann Rule

He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and fears, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.

Samuel Johnson

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

Mike Tyson

Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.

Gwendolyn Brooks

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Naomi Wolf

A lunatic may be

Edgar Allan Poe, The System of D

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

Heather Morris

To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.

Stuart Sutherland

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

Armstrong Williams

Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do what you love, and what you're proud of, and you're fuckin' bulletproof. You're fuckin' bulletproof. If you do what you absolutely believe to be right, then you're fuckin' bulletproof.

Craig Ferguson