Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.

Positive thinking is the key which unlocks the doors of the world.

In the consciousness that another mind reflects your thought, you find the keenest satisfaction. Here is the high office of a friend, and in these high experiences is the point of attachment.--

Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so we figure it out.

[Reagan] was the best president in this era, as he had the perfect temperament for the job.

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents.

In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.

The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.

I can do basics, but I'm not a proper cook. I can do a roast. I can stick a chicken in the oven with vegetables.

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.