I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.

William Styron, interview, Write

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

Whoopi Goldberg

I'm a very professional man. I'm not out for the experience of adventure.

Werner Herzog

Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.

Lord Byron

People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.

Source Unknown

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is.

Terry Pratchett

Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

William Feather

You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time to get yourself a new spoon.' And you do.

Mick Jagger

The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.

Barbara Delinsky

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

George Santayana

I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.

Courteney Cox

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

Lin Yutang