So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal.

But let us not forget this either: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new things.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Lyndon B. Johnson

There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way. No day but today!

Jonathan Larson

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.

Minnie Driver

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

Doris Lessing

It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.

Lenny Kravitz

What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.

Peter Deunov

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

Nothing is less instructive than a machine.

Simone Weil

I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.

Coco Lee

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

Billy Ray Cyrus

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.

Frederick Sanger