Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return.

We used to be referred to as bakers and then we became known as cake decorators and now we are known as cake designers. I teach at the French Culinary Institute in New York and cake design is a legitimate profession.

Ron Ben-Israel

Each underestimates her own power and overestimates the other's.

Deborah Tannen

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Carl Jung

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

Robert Thibodeau

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

Eric Hoffer

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.

Julie Burchill

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?

Anon.

There are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation.

Victor Hugo

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if he's still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit!

Robert Forster

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.

Shirley Jackson, Raising Demons