I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John F. Kennedy

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

George Bernard Shaw

Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

Mary Archer

Time will explain.

Jane Austen

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Carrie Preston

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Erich Fromm

There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward.

Peter Ackroyd

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Frank Iero

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay.

Harvey Fierstein

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

Russell Means

My three addictions of choice are food, love and work.

Alanis Morissette