Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Marlo Thomas

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

Robert Fanney

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Dean Acheson, from a speech in I

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

George Steiner, Real Presences,

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

For me, prose walks, poetry dances.

James Broughton

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

Blaise Pascal

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains

Emilie Cady

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Honore de Balzac

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

William Allingham

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have spent a good many years since--too many, I think--being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.

Stephen King