I turned 54 this year and I find myself feeling like I'm in a bit of a race to get down on paper the way I really feel about life - or the way it has presented to me. And because it has presented to me very beautifully, this is hard. It is technically very hard to show positive manifestations.

love has a very dulling effect on the brain

Elizabeth Peters

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Derek Jarman

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

Ramakrishna

The only true love is love at first sight second sight dispels it.

Israel Zangwill

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together...

Charles Dickens

A specter is haunting Europe -- the specter of communism.

Karl Marx

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

Rand Paul

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

George Orwell

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Edgar R. Fiedler

What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures.

Scott Walker

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

Ken Hensley

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

Shelley Duvall