The word question is derived from the Latin quarrier (to seek) which is the same root as the word for quest. A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

Victor Hugo

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.

Lindsey Graham

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

James Thurber

When I was 15, I worked at a dry cleaner because I wanted Abercrombie & Fitch jeans. My mom told me I could have $20 jeans, not $70 jeans, unless I was willing to work for them. So I did!

Ashley Greene

She was so ugly that they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders.

Rodney Dangerfield

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

Nathaniel Branden

First of all, plain and simple, you have no real idea of what it means to be famous until you become famous. It's a double-edged sword. Obviously there are a lot of amazing things about fame, but there are also a lot of challenging things about it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Maurice Strong

Certainly the Art of Writing is the most miraculous of all things man has devised.

Thomas Carlyle

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

Matthew Fox

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Carl Sagan

Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

J. August Strindberg