A thousand laughing suns are in your eyes. A thousand crying stars in mine.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Arthur Erickson

One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having to come to grips with it. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it. So I use writing as a learning tool.

Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

Betty White

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

Kenneth Branagh

It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.

Dorothy Parker

Love, and you shall be loved

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Abraham Lincoln

The devil made me do it I have never made one of them do anything. They live their own lives. I do not live their lives for them.

Neil Gaiman

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Benjamin Franklin

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

Harold Coffin

Science grows like a weed every year.

Kary Mullis

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

Wallace Stevens