And Quotes

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?

I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me

Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.

What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

People may come and go,lives may change in a instant,but love and friendship will last forever.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

But I do know focusing on the exterior doesn't make me happy. If I want peace and serenity, it won't be reached by getting thinner or fatter.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

I had this sense that I was part of, sort of a lineage of artists and writers through history that have had mood disorders.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

I don't believe in writer's block or waiting for inspiration. If you're a writer, you sit down and write.

until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?

Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.

Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

Success to me is my friends and family are healthy and happy and I feel good about myself at the end of the night and I can sleep at night.

I hope my head doesn't get very big. I'm just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try to lead a normal life.

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

I tried to reach the combatants with my music. I tried to turn my anger into something positive. Myself, and others like me, just tried to keep rock and roll alive.

Federal overreach from agencies like the EPA is hurting family farms. I will fight against these crippling regulations, and always side with the hard working farmers and ranchers of Missouri.

The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations.

Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!

For me, it's church and state, not church in state, and I really feel there are some churches in central Ohio crossing that line.

Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.

The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.

When someone asks if you're a god, you say YES!

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro, By a rifleman hid in the thicket.

Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.