The work is with me when I wake up in the morning it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

Instead he felt only love. And that was the miracle. The surge in hatred since the war began had created more love around it. It was indomitable, mad, and everlasting, scattered through the rich and the poor, deep and calm in the Quakers, hot and fierce in the mothers, faithful in the warriors, wistful in the pets, seeping its way into mercy and atrocity, destroying things, rebuilding them.

Kathy Hepinstall

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.

Andre Sinyavsky

The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.

Italian Proverb

An empty canvas is a living wonder... far lovelier than certain pictures.

Wassily Kandinsky

Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Anon.

Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant

Martin Luther King Jr.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the '90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.

Janeane Garofalo

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence

Thomas Jefferson

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

The unspoken word never does harm.

Lajos Kossuth

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

Douglas Horton

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

Jack Nicholson