What I still ask for daily - for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.
Reynolds Price
She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.
Faith Sullivan
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Edward Koch
My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.
Richard Dreyfus
I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
Martin Sheen
Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.
Naomi Wolf
Sanity is a cozy lie.
Susan Sontag
Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church; and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and
Robert Eldridge Willmott
What used to be called liberal is now called radical, what used to be called radical is now called insane, what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate, and what used to be called insane is now called solid conservative thinking.
Tony Kushner
Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin
While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.