Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
A person's life is dyed with the color of his imagination.
The world is nothing but change, our life is only perception.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.
He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.
The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.
We've always talked about doing something else and Campbell Scott is always busy and I'm always busy. But when we came up with the idea of doing the potato famine as a hip hop musical, I wanted somebody who was going to bring gravity.
The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.