All things on earth point home in old October sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.

Isaac Barrow

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

Gus Van Sant

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Robert Frost

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some

Charles Dickens

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.

John Henry Newman

Sometimes you can forget about who you are in a relationship. But you can also be inspired by the person you are with to become something you always knew you wanted to become.

Mia Maestro

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

David Byrne

I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

Michel de Montaigne

I'm getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.

Christina Ricci

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

Issey Miyake