Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Many people see their problems to be permanent because they continue to face them with the same mental attitudes that created them.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

The human race is a race of cowards and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.

One of my top priorities in Congress is to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels.

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

What a wonderful contribution our grandmothers and grandfathers can make if they will share some of the rich experiences and their testimonies with their children and grandchildren.