I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed.

Peter Wastholm

So the news that divorced fathers are to be denied a legal right to a relationship with their children, in the long overdue review of family law published this week, fills me with horror and despair.

Louis de Bernieres

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

Carl Sagan, Contact

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

David Bowie

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

Stephen King

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Anthony Robbins

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Robert W. Service

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

Helen Rowland

We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.

Samuel Johnson

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.

Oscar Wilde

Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar