Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Amanda and I both paused to take in that bit of wisdom. And try to decide if it even was wisdom.

Robin Brande

In my case, I pay a standard premium to participate in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Plan for my wife and myself out of each month's paycheck.

Virgil Goode

No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.

Kenneth Tynan, Recalled on his d

In feature films the director is God in documentary films God is the director.

Alfred Hitchcock

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

Angela Carter

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

Sloane Crosley

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Robert Kennedy

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less...

Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Rep

You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

William Jefferson Clinton

A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It's not easy once you're out of the habit.

Dashiell Hammett

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Henry Miller